Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, Used [Paperback]

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 empires always fail.

Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, Used [Paperback]