| Description |
1 online resource (x, 480 pages) |
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The subjects of empire -- Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire -- Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus -- Spanish Peru : empire by franchise -- Company India : private empire building -- Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted -- British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism -- France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint -- Imperial epitaph |
| Summary |
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline. Parsons argues that |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010 |
| Subject |
Colonies -- History
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Colonization -- History
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Imperialism -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Colonies
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Colonization
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Imperialism
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Imperialism -- historia.
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Kolonier -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199719594 |
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0199719594 |
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9780195304312 |
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0195304314 |
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9780190254698 |
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0190254696 |
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1282544098 |
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9781282544093 |
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9786612544095 |
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6612544090 |
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