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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.