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388–89, 392–93, 401, 408–9

407

trial for collaboration, 415–16, 418

German, 359–60

Philip II, 118, 120–21

Italian, 261–64, 284–85

Philippines, 129, 430–31

in the Soviet Union, 429

Piedmont, kingdom of, 243, 264,

Spanish, 82, 261

269–70, 285

nation-state, 7, 15, 359

Pizarro, Francisco, 111–15, 140–41,

native reserves.
See
Kenya Colony

143–44

and Protectorate

Pizarro, Gonzalo, 112, 142, 144

Nazi-Soviet Pact, 367–68, 383, 400,

Pizarro, Hernando, 112, 132,

428

144, 193

Ndebele, 18, 363, 420

Pizarro, Juan, 112, 143

neoconservatives, 3, 72, 424

Plassey, battle of, 169, 172–73, 227

Netherlands, 121, 180, 244, 253, 257

Poland, 429.
See also
Duchy of

German rule, 371, 379

Warsaw

new imperialism, 14, 295–96, 298,

Pope Alexander VI, 117

347–48, 421, 425, 430

Pope Pius VII, 246

New Laws of 1542, 127–28, 144

Potosí, 152–53

New Spain, viceroyalty of, 124, 128

Powell, Colin, 433

Norway, 368, 370–71

Protestant evangelism, 1

Nuremberg war crimes trials, 420–21

in Africa, 316

in South Asia, 207–8, 218–19, 223

Operation Iraqi Freedom.
See
Iraq

opium, 182, 206, 211–12

qollqas
warehouses, 134, 136–37

Quisling, Vidkun, 370–71

Pacha Kamaq cult, 135, 139

Quraysh, 70–71

Papon, Maurice, 418

Paris

race

Napoleonic era, 245

British India, 216, 229

Nazi occupation, 353, 383, 397–98

German views of, 360

Paris Peace Settlement, 362–63, 366,

justifi cation for empire, 14

368

Nazi views of, 366, 372–73, 376,

Parthenopean Republic.
See
sister

396

republics

new imperialism, 300–301, 323

INDEX 479

Roman views of, 25

Seven Years’ War, 182, 194

Spanish Empire, 129, 148, 167

Shah Alam II, 188, 192, 194

Raj, 223–24, 303–5, 331

Siraj-ud-Daula, 169, 173, 189

ralliement
, 233, 246–47, 249, 254–55

sister republics, 243–44, 266–67

Reconquista, 106–107, 120

slavery, 9

reducciones
villages, 147, 341

abolitionists, 301

Republic of the Indians, 145–46, 158

in Kenya, 312

requerimiento
, 117

in the Roman era, 39, 50

Reynaud, Paul, 354

in the Spanish Empire, 127, 130,

Roderic, Visigothic king of Spain,

161

65–66, 85

in the Umayyad Caliphate, 78–79

Roman Empire, 5

in the United States, 430

Britain, 51–53

smallpox, 112, 124, 306

imperial administration, 30–31,

Smith, Adam, 195, 202

33–34

Soviet Union, 367–69, 428–29, 449

military, 29, 34, 57

Spanish Empire, 119, 165

popular imagination, 23–24, 61,

administration, 128

117, 146, 296, 447

Bourbon rule, 158–59, 178–79, 261

republic, 28–30

end of, 430

Romania, 368–69

Napoleonic era, 164, 253, 261

romanization, 26, 37–38, 53, 84, 256

silver, 130–32, 152

Rome, city of, 30, 31

Spartacus, 39, 221

Napoleonic era, 270, 273

Stalin, Joseph, 381, 411, 428

Roosevelt, Franklin, 354, 431

Strabo, 21, 40, 42

Rosenberg, Alfred, 373–74

subject, defi nition of, 11, 304

Roy, Rammohun, 215–16, 217

Suez Canal, 301, 345, 425, 431

Rumsfeld, Donald, 433, 435, 438–39,

444–45

Tacitus, 40, 46, 49, 387

Russian Empire, 428.
See also
Soviet

Taki Onqoy (dance sickness), 150, 388

Union

Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme,

334–35

sati
, 209, 216

Tariq ibn Ziyad, 66–67

September 11 terrorist attacks, 2, 15,

Tawantinsuyu.
See
Inkan Empire

72–73

Theodemir, 86

settlers, 10

Thorez, Maurice, 380, 383

Arab, 72–3, 88–89

thuggee
, 209, 215

in the British Empire, 294, 299, 343

Thuku, Harry, 309, 320, 321

in Ireland, 178

Togodumnus, 22, 44, 49

in Nazi Germany, 361, 372–73, 419

Toledo, 83, 103

in North America, 179–80

Toledo, Francisco de, 146, 152–53, 341

in Roman Britain, 178–79

tribes

Roman veterans, 31, 34, 45

Arab views of, 69–70, 76

in the Spanish Empire, 129, 145

of Iron Age Britain, 42

(
see also
colonialism, defi nition of;

Roman conceptions of, 25–27

Kenya Colony and Protectorate)

western conceptions of, 303–4, 325

480 INDEX

triennio
.
See
Italy

Waskar, 111–15, 138

Trinovantes, 43–44, 47

Wayna Qhapaq, 109, 112, 115, 138,

Tupac Amaru, 148

166

Tupac Amaru II, 162–63, 339

Wellesley, Richard, 205–6

Westphalia, kingdom of, 253, 257, 258

Uganda Railway, 305–6

white highlands.
See
Kenya Colony

Ukraine, 361, 372–74

and Protectorate

Umar ibn Hafsun, 93–94

Wilberforce, William, 208

Umar II, 79–80, 88

Williams, Rowan (Archbishop of

Umayyad Caliphate, 6, 70, 73–74,

Canterbury), 1

81–82

Witiza, 66, 87

imperial administration, 74–75

Wolfowitz, Paul, 433, 439, 446

military, 75

women

United Nations, 2, 343, 428, 431, 439

in Al-Andalus, 101–102

United States

in British India, 200–201, 213–14,

rule in the Philippines, 430–31

217, 221

views on empire, 429–30

in the Inkan Empire, 135, 140–42,

war in Vietnam, 432–33, 449

148

utilitarianism, 209–10, 223

in Kenya, 327–28

in Napoleonic Italy, 277

Valera, Blas, 141, 149

in Nazi-occupied France, 390,

Vega, Garcialaso de la, 127, 149, 161

397–998, 412–13

Vendée, 242, 245, 251

in Roman Britain, 51

Verica, 21

in the Spanish Empire, 129–30,

Vietnam, 432–33

148, 156–57

Visigoths

in the Third Reich, 378

rule in Spain, 82–85

sack of Rome, 59, 82

yanaconas
, 137–38, 152

Volk
.
See
race

Yupanqui, Doña Angelina, 140

Waffen SS, French members of, 402,

zabt
revenue system, 186, 194, 199

409–10, 412, 414

zamindars
, 170, 186, 194, 199, 210–11,

wakas
, 133, 134, 150–51

234, 323.
See also
Permanent

Wari Empire, 133

Settlement

Document Outline
  • Cover
  • The rule of empires : those who built them,
    those who endured them,
    and why they always fall
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Subjects of Empire
  • 1 Roman Britain: The Myth of the Civilizing
    Empire
  • 2 Muslim Spain: Blurring Subjecthood in Imperial
    Al-Andalus
  • 3 Spanish Peru: Empire by Franchise
  • 4 Company India: Private Empire Building
  • 5 Napoleonic Italy: Empire Aborted
  • 6 British Kenya: The Short Life of the
    New Imperialism
  • 7 France under the Nazis: Imperial Endpoint
  • Conclusion: Imperial Epitaph
  • Notes
  • Index

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