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War and imperialism in republican Rome : 327-70 B.C.
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ISBN: 0198148666 9780198148661 Year: 1985 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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War and imperialism in republican Rome 327-70 B.C.
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ISBN: 0198148275 9780198148272 Year: 1979 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Rome and the Worlds Beyond its Frontiers
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ISBN: 9789004325616 9004325611 9789004326750 9004326758 Year: 2016 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?"--Provided by publisher.

Mediterranean anarchy, interstate war, and the rise of Rome.
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ISBN: 9780520246188 0520246187 0520259920 0520932307 128235888X 1433701359 9786612358883 Year: 2006 Volume: 48 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an exceptionally warlike and aggressive state-not merely in modern but in ancient terms-by arguing that intense militarism and aggressiveness were common among all Mediterranean polities from ca 750 B.C. onwards. In his wide-ranging and masterful narrative, Eckstein explains that international politics in the ancient Mediterranean world was, in political science terms, a multipolar anarchy: international law was minimal, and states struggled desperately for power and survival by means of warfare. Eventually, one state, the Republic of Rome, managed to create predominance and a sort of peace. Rome was certainly a militarized and aggressive state, but it was successful not because it was exceptional in its ruthlessness, Eckstein convincingly argues; rather, it was successful because of its exceptional ability to manage a large network of foreign allies, and to assimilate numerous foreigners within the polity itself. This book shows how these characteristics, in turn, gave Rome incomparably large resources for the grim struggle of states fostered by the Mediterranean anarchy-and hence they were key to Rome's unprecedented success.

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