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Contents
Introduction
PART I: THE PROBLEM
1. The Nature of Our Contemporary Condition
2. The Question of Empire
PART II: THE PARALLELS
3. The Glory that was Rome
4. Spain: The Rise and Fall of a Dynastic Empire
5. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
6. Russian Empires Old and New
7. Lessons of Empire
PART III: THE RECKONING
8. A New Rome on the Potomac?
9. Towards a Better America
Notes.
America in the shadow of empires by David Coates. ISBN 9781137482365. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.