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 | The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (Reprint Edition) by Timothy H. Parsons, Oxford University Press Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-19-993115-1 / 0199931151 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-993115-6 / 9780199931156 In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire, what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment, and perhaps most important, why | |