Timothy H. ParsonsTimothy H. Parsons holds a joint appointment as a Professor of African History in the history department and the African and African–American Studies Program at Washington University, St Louis. His publications include The Second British Empire: In te Crucible of the Twentieth Century (2014), The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (2010), Race, Resistance and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa (2004), The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa (2003) and The African Rank-and-File: Social Implications of Colonial Service in the King's African Rifles, 1902–1964 (1999). Read More Read Less