Mortal Republic - Couverture souple

Watts, Edward J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1541646487 ISBN 13 : 9781541646483

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars--and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation, he lives in Carlsbad, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541646487
• ISBN 13: 9781541646483
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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