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Building a New Rome
Author | : Elaine K. Gazda,Ünal Demirer,Diana Yi-Man Ng |
Publsiher | : Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum Art |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0974187348 |
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"The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed new light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in west-central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology as well as archival material from a 1924 University of Michigan expedition to the site, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city's major excavated monuments. They also evaluate these monuments in relation to the social and political imperatives of Pisidian Antioch's hybrid culture--one that overlaid a Roman imperial colony on a Hellenistic Greek city in an Anatolian region long inhabited by Phrygians and Pisidians. The study of Pisidian Antioch is thus seen in the context of recent scholarship on Rome's colonial project in the eastern empire. An accompanying DVD presents a fly-over of the virtual city created to aid in the authors' research"--Publisher's website.
Empires of Trust
Author | : Thomas F. Madden |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781440631399 |
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An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation's future. Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead. Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration.
Why America Is Not a New Rome
Author | : Vaclav Smil |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780262288293 |
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An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles. America's post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences. Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, focuses on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation; and demographic and economic basics—population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome's.
The New Roman Empire
Author | : Anthony Kaldellis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1169 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9780197549322 |
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"This is the first comprehensive, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire (or Byzantium) to appear in over a generation. It begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and ends with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century, covering political and military history as well as all major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy. In recent decades, the study of Byzantium has been revolutionized by new approaches and sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. The book's core is an accessible and lively narrative of events, free of jargon, which incorporates new findings, explains recent models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in new light. Two overarching themes shape the narrative. First, by projecting accountability the Roman state persuaded its subjects that it was working in their interests and thereby forestalled separatist movements. To do so, it had to restrain the tendency of elites to extract ever more resources from the labor-force. Second, the effort to sustain a common identity, both Roman and Christian, was subject to powerful forces of internal division and put under severe strain by western Europeans in the later Middle Ages. The book explains in detail the alternating periods of success and failure in the long history of this polity. It foregrounds the dynamics of Christian identity, asking why it tended to fracture along lines of doctrine, practice, and ultimately over Union with the Catholic West"--
Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture
Author | : Diana Y. Ng,Molly Swetnam-Burland |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781108473897 |
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The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.
The Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth New Ed
Author | : Nathaniel Hooke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3020001 |
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The New Rome
Author | : Theodore Poesche,Charles Goepp |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : BL:A0022183062 |
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The Twelve Tables
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547240228 |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Twelve Tables" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.