Timothy H. ParsonsTimothy H. Parsons is professor of African history at Washington University. His publications include The African Rank-and-File: Social Implications of Colonial Service in the King’s African Rifles, 1902–1964, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built The, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall and The Second British Empire: In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century. Read More Read Less