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The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

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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.

The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

Author Bio

As a social historian of twentieth century Africa, my research focuses on understanding how ordinary people experienced imperial rule and the transformation of colonies into nation states.  

My books to date have explored how Africans from diverse walks of life navigated the shifting realities of repression and opportunity that emerged during the imperial and early national eras.  

Building on this earlier work, I am currently pursuing several research projects.

- The Historical Geography of Kenyan Identity Formation
- Kenya Becomes a Nation State: Expected and Unexpected Outcomes of Competitive National Imagining During      the Transfer of    Power, 1959-1972
- A World History of the Twentieth Century

 

Employment 

  • Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006 to the Present.
  • Director, International and Area Studies,  2010 to 2015.
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005 to 2011.
  • Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002 to 2006.
  • Director, African and Afro-American Studies Program, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003 to 2005, co-director 2013.
  • Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, 1996 to 2002.

 

Education 

  • Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1996
  • George Washington University, M.A., 1991
  • Wesleyan University, B.A., 1985

 

Source: Washington University in St Louis 

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