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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny - Hardcover

Watts, Edward J.

 
9780465093816: Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465093817 ISBN 13: 9780465093816
Verlag: Basic Books, 2018

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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.

“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” ―New Yorker

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.

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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.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465093817
ISBN 13 
9780465093816
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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