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The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall /
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 histori...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 480 pages) |
| Premios: | Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199719594 0199719594 9780195304312 0195304314 9780190254698 0190254696 1282544098 9781282544093 9786612544095 6612544090 |