TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons,Timothy
TI  - The rule of empires: those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall 
SN  - 9780190254698 (ebook) :
AV  - JV61 .P33 2015
U1  - 325.3 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Imperialism
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2012; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In this text, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent 20th-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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199931156.001.0001
ER  -