The Rule of Empires

By - Parsons, Timothy

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

ISBN 10 - 0195304314

ISBN 13 - 9780195304312

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Colonies

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 325.3 PAR

Physical Description - 1 online resource (x, 480 pages)

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Why do empires rise and why do they fall? To answer this question, Timothy Parsons casts his gaze across seven historical moments - from ancient Rome to Muslim Spain, from Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich. From these very different examples, he draws out common features about empires' evolutions, their self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline.

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