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The Rule of Empires - Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (Hardcover)
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The Rule of Empires - Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (Hardcover)
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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 far from confirming some sort of
Darwinian hierarchy of advanced and primitive societies, conquests
were simply the products of a temporary advantage in military
technology, wealth, and political will. Beneath the self-justifying
rhetoric of benevolent paternalism and cultural superiority lay
economic exploitation and the desire for power. Yet imperial
ambitions still appear viable in the twenty-first century, Parsons
shows, because their defenders and detractors alike employ abstract
and romanticized perspectives that fail to grasp the historical
reality of subjugation.
Writing from the perspective of the common subject rather than
that of the imperial conquerors, Parsons offers a historically
grounded cautionary tale rich with accounts of subjugated peoples
throwing off the yoke of empire time and time again. In providing
an accurate picture of what it is like to live as a subject, The
Rule of Empires lays bare the rationalizations of imperial
conquerors and their apologists and exposes the true limits of hard
power.
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