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180728s2018 nyu ob 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9780465093816 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
937.05 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Watts, Edward Jay, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1975- |
| Relator term |
author |
| 9 (RLIN) |
14264 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mortal republic : |
| Remainder of title |
how Rome fell into tyranny / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Edward J. Watts. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Basic Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
322 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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rdacontent |
| Content type term |
text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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rdamedia |
| Media type term |
unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term |
volume |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Autocratic freedom -- The new world order -- Empire and inequality -- The politics of frustration -- The rise of the outsider -- The republic breaks -- Rebuilding amidst the wreckage -- The republic of the mediocre -- Stumbling towards dictatorship -- The birth and death of Caesar's republic -- The republic of Octavian -- Choosing Augustan liberty. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and threatened to burn them alive if they did not make Augustus dictator. Why did Rome--to this day one of the world's longest-lived republics--exchange freedom for autocracy? Mortal Republic is a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome made this trade. Prizewinning historian Edward J. Watts shows how, for centuries, Rome's governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs succeeded in fostering compromise and negotiation. Even amid moments of crisis like Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the 210s BC, Rome's Republic proved remarkably resilient, and it continued to function well as Rome grow into the premier military and political power in the Mediterranean world. By the 130s BC, however, the old ways of government had grown inadequate in managing a massive standing army, regulating trade across the Mediterranean, and deciding what to do with enormous new revenues of money, land, and slaves. In subsequent decades, politicians increasingly misused Rome's consensus-building tools to pursue individual political and personal gain, and to obstruct urgently needed efforts to address growing social and economic inequality. Individuals--and Marius, Caesar and Cato, Augustus and Pompey--made selfish decisions that benefited them personally but irreparably damaged the health of the state. As the political center decayed, political fights evolved from arguments between politicians in representative assembles to violent confrontations between ordinary people in the street, setting the stage for the destructive civil wars of the first century BC--and ultimately for the Republic's end"-- |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Rome |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
265-30 B.C. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1964 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Rome |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Republic, 265-30 B.C. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2012 |
