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  title info:
    title: Mortal republic
    sub title: how Rome fell into tyranny
  name:
    name part: Watts, Edward Jay
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  target audience: adult
  note: Edward J. Watts.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 265-30 B.C
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Republic, 265-30 B.C
  classification: DG254.2 .W38 2018
  classification: 937/.05
  identifier: 9780465093816
  identifier: 0465093817
  identifier: 9780465093823
  identifier: 2018018024
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180626
    record change date: 20190422100053.0
    record identifier: in00004037063