Mortal Republic How Rome Fell Into Tyranny 1st Edition by Edward J Watts ISBN 0465093825 978-0465093823

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ISBN 10: 0465093825 
ISBN 13: 978-0465093823
Author: Edward J. Watts

A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean’s premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome’s leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars – and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus.

The death of Rome’s Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

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Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 Autocratic Freedom
CHAPTER 2 The New World Order
CHAPTER 3 Empire and Inequality
CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Frustration
CHAPTER 5 The Rise of the Outsider
CHAPTER 6 The Republic Breaks
CHAPTER 7 Rebuilding amid the Wreckage
CHAPTER 8 The Republic of the Mediocre
CHAPTER 9 Stumbling Toward Dictatorship
CHAPTER 10 The Birth and Death of Caesar’s Republic
CHAPTER 11 The Republic of Octavian
CHAPTER 12 Choosing Augustan Liberty

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