Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC -- AD 476 (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Rome Explains the story of Rome's rise and fall. This book shows Rome to be a system of robbery with violence. Locked into a 'world system' of military competition between rival states, it strove to accumulate war-making capacity by waging wars of plunder and organising conquered territory into a 'military-supply' economy.
Full description- Publisher: LONGMAN
- Published: 01 February 2008
- Format: Hardback 400 pages
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- Categories: European History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780582784956 ISBN 10: 0582784956
- Sales rank: 650,804
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Full description for Rome
The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people slaves, serfs and poor peasants were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.
