Rome: Republic Into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE Tapa dura -

Pen and Sword History, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.75 x 1 x 9.75 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [2], bibliography, index, timeline, maps, and photo plates. xvii, 243 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the century; it describes and examines the protagonists, their military skills, their political aims and the battles they fought and lost; it discusses the consequences of each battle and how the final conflict led to a seismic change in the Roman political system with the establishment of an autocratic empire. This is not just another arid chronological list of battles, their winners and their losers. Using a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, Paul Chrystal offers a rare insight into the… Leer más

Pen & Sword, 2019. Hardcover. New. 243 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches.

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