The Rule of Empires

by Timothy H. Parsons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195304314
• ISBN13: 9780195304312
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"