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In Ancient Rome and Modern America, Guglielmo Ferrero reads Roman history not as a remote antiquarian field but as a mirror for modern power. Moving between the late Republic, imperial administration, economic expansion, and the moral strains of wealth, he compares Rome's ascent with the United States' industrial and democratic dynamism. The prose is lucid, essayistic, and comparative, shaped by the early twentieth-century tradition of historical sociology rather than by narrow chronicle. Ferrero, the Italian historian best known for The Greatness and Decline of Rome, brought to the subject an unusual combination of classical learning, political observation, and concern for modern civilization. Living through an age of mass democracy, imperial rivalry, and rapid capitalism, he saw in Rome a laboratory for questions that still troubled his own world: legitimacy, social cohesion, luxury, conquest, and the fragility of republican institutions. This book is recommended for readers who want history to illuminate public life rather than merely recount events. Students of Rome, American political culture, comparative empire, and intellectual history will find Ferrero's arguments provocative, elegant, and still suggestive. It is a concise but ambitious work for anyone interested in how ancient precedents can clarify modern anxieties.
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Inhoud
- Taal:
- Engels
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- Productcode (EAN):
- 9788028330217
- Uitvoering:
- Paperback
- Afmetingen:
- 152 mm x 229 mm
- Gewicht:
- 198 g
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