History Of The Roman People

Williamson, Callie: The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and... 2005

Williamson, Callie. The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and decline of the Roman Republic. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, [2005] xxviii, 506 pp. Cloth. New. * For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's comprehensive and innovative study finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth during the most formative period of empire, roughly 350 to 44 BCE, lies in its public lawmaking assemblies that helped extend Roman influence and control. " one that every scholar of Roman law, Roman history, and imperial history should read.: M. H. Hoeflich, Law and History Review (Fall 2007) 646.

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Hildinger, Erik. SWORDS AGAINST THE SENATE The Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic. Da Capo Press, 2002.
Spine slightly cocked. Unread copy. ; 0.89 x 9.21 x 6.19 Inches; 256 pages; In the first century B. C. , Rome was master of the world but could not control its own citizens and its own army. After Rome defeated its age-old enemy, Carthage, it was the undisputed ruler of a vast empire. Yet, at the heart of the Roman Republic was a peculiar flaw: an uneradicable tension between the aristocracy and the plebians, and each regarded themselves as the foundation of Rome's military power. Swords Against the Senate relates how the republic began to come apart amid military and political turmoil-the smoldering anger of the common people, a petty war against a treacherous North African prince, an invasion by Germans and an Italian political uprising. In the crisis Gaius Marius, the "people's general, " rises to despotic power but is eventually replaced by the brutal dictator Sulla, who in turn spawns the man who would transform turmoil into imperial triumph, Julius Caesar. In this fast-paced, fact-filled work, personal intrigue, treachery, and occasional moral virtue vie for the reins of power. The Roman army, once invincible against foreign antagonists, becomes a tool for the powerful and government its foe. Erik Hildinger has written a fascinating, insightful work of history.. 0306811685.

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[SW: Rome Ancient History Europe Marius Classical Greek & Roman Roman History Roman Republic Sulla,]

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Millar, Fergus. THE CROWD IN ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Light shelfwear to book. Former owner's name on ffep. Dustjacket has edgewear to front bottom corner that has been repaired with scotch tape by former owner. ; The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could only be gained by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other officeholders, and make some administrative decisions, it could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures, Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic, which by its final years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their rights, voters had to come to Rome (or to live in or near the city as about one third of them did) and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B. C. , the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and shows how crowd politics was central to the great changes that took place year after year. The volume will interest general readers, as well as students of politics and Roman history. Technical terms are explained, and foreign words are kept to a minimum. ; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 1.06 x 9.32 x 6.34 Inches; 256 pages. 0472108921.

Hardcover, Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

[SW: Rome Social History Roman History Roman Republic Patricians And Plebeians Classical Greek & Roman Social & Cultural,]

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MacMullen, Ramsay. CHANGES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Essays in the Ordinary. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Dustjacket and book have minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches; 416 pages; Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary people's behavior and to detect within these routines the very changes that constitute history. Such analysis also shows how this era benefits from the same historiographical approaches that have so successfully elucidated sociocultural phenomena in other periods. Drawing from statistical analysis and many other historical approaches, these essays on popular mores in the Roman Empire cover such topics as language and art, acculturation, thought and religion, sex and gender, cruelty and slavery, and aspects of class and power relations. The author introduces the collection with several essays on historical method, as it pertains to the richness of documentation and variety to be found in the region and period chosen.. 0691036012.

Hardcover, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

[SW: History Rome Roman History Roman Empire Reference,]

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