Ideal Empires and Republics

Ideal Empires and Republics

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Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781434429674

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A collection of four classic works on utopian societies: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), On the Social Contract; Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia; Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), New Atlantis; and Tommaso Campanella (1568--1639), City of the Sun.


Ideal Empires and Republics

Ideal Empires and Republics

Author: Charles M Andrews

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022469891

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Ideal Empires and Republics is a political treatise outlining the principles and structures of ideal societies. Written by historian Charles M. Andrews, the book combines philosophical and practical approaches to explore the formation of utopian civilizations. A thought-provoking and insightful read for those interested in political theory. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic

The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic

Author: Giovanni R. F. Ferrari

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0521839637

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This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.


Rome's Revolution

Rome's Revolution

Author: Richard Alston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0190231602

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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged as leaders of a revolutionary regime, which crushed all opposition. In time, Lepidus was removed, Antony and Cleopatra were dispatched, and Octavian stood alone as sole ruler of Rome. He became Augustus, Rome's first emperor, and by the time of his death in AD 14 the 500-year-old republic was but a distant memory and the birth of one of history's greatest empires was complete. Rome's Revolution provides a riveting narrative of this tumultuous period of change. Historian Richard Alston digs beneath the high politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian to reveal the experience of the common Roman citizen and soldier. He portrays the revolution as the crisis of a brutally competitive society, both among the citizenry and among the ruling class whose legitimacy was under threat. Throughout, he sheds new light on the motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and slaughter their compatriots. He also shows the reasons behind and the immediate legacy of the awe inspiringly successful and ruthless reign of Emperor Augustus. An enthralling story of ancient warfare, social upheaval, and personal betrayal, Rome's Revolution offers an authoritative new account of an epoch which still haunts us today.


The Middle Ground

The Middle Ground

Author: Richard White

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1139495682

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An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.