The Tragedy of EmpireThe Tragedy of Empire

2019-11-192019-11-19 Michael KulikowskiMichael Kulikowski

A sweeping political narrative, The Tragedy of Empire tells the story of the Western Roman Empire’s downfall, even as the Eastern Empire remained politically strong and culturally vibrant.

Author: Michael Kulikowski

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674660137

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Michael Kulikowski traces two hundred years of Roman history during which the Empire became ungovernable and succumbed to turbulence and change. A sweeping political narrative, The Tragedy of Empire tells the story of the Western Roman Empire’s downfall, even as the Eastern Empire remained politically strong and culturally vibrant.

Imperial TragedyImperial Tragedy

2021-072021-07 Michael KulikowskiMichael Kulikowski

Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative.

Author: Michael Kulikowski

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ISBN: 1781256330

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For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms first nominally under Imperial rule and then, one by one, beyond it. Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse. Full of palace intrigue, religious conflicts and military history, as well as details of the shifts in social, religious and political structures, Imperial Tragedy contests the idea that Rome fell due to external invasions. Instead, it focuses on how the choices and conditions of those living within the empire led to its fall. For it was not a single catastrophic moment that broke the Empire but a creeping process; by the time people understood that Rome had fallen, the west of the Empire had long since broken the Imperial yoke.

The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and PlatoThe Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

2020-07-152020-07-15 John T. HoganJohn T. Hogan

Alcibiades' theory of empire continues the Athenian move toward tyranny, in which the Melian Dialogue was an important step.90 His idea that Athens must continually expand in order to survive means that in the end Athens' goal must be ...

Author: John T. Hogan

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781498596312

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John T. Hogan’s The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens’ defeat in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydides’ presentation of political leadership with ideas in Plato’s Statesman as well as Laches, Charmides, Meno, Symposium, Republic, Phaedo, Sophist, and Laws, it concludes that Plato and Thucydides reveal Pericles as lacking the political discipline (sophrosune) to plan a successful war against Sparta. Hogan argues that in his presentation of the collapse in the Corcyraean revolution of moral standards in political discourse, Thucydides shows how revolution destroys the morality implied in basic personal and political language. This reveals a general collapse in underlying prudential measurements needed for sound moral judgment. Furthermore, Hogan argues that the Statesman’s outline of the political leader serves as a paradigm for understanding the weaknesses of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in terms that parallel Thucydides’ direct and implied conclusions, which in Pericles’ case he highlights with dramatic irony. Hogan shows that Pericles failed both to develop a sufficiently robust practice of Athenian democratic rule and to set up a viable system for succession.

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy 50th Anniversary Edition The Tragedy of American Diplomacy 50th Anniversary Edition

2009-04-062009-04-06 William Appleman WilliamsWilliam Appleman Williams

The ultimate failures of the Open Door Policy, in short, are the failures generated by its success in guiding Americans in the creation of an empire. Once these factors are understood, it becomes useful to explore the way that ...

Author: William Appleman Williams

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393079791

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“A brilliant book on foreign affairs.”—Adolf A. Berle Jr., New York Times Book Review This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam. William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams’s interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.

The Tragedy of U S Foreign PolicyThe Tragedy of U S Foreign Policy

2018-11-222018-11-22 Walter A. McDougallWalter A. McDougall

... eds., Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (2005); Eliga H. Gould, Among the Powers of ... the Making of a New World Empire (2012); and Leonard J. Sadosky, Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, ...

Author: Walter A. McDougall

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 9780300224511

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A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America’s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the entire course of the country’s history, McDougall’s book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred years. From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against “godless Communism,” this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged but freely exercised dogmas of civil religion that bind together a “God blessed” America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global destiny.

The Tragedy of the Pound Routledge Revivals The Tragedy of the Pound Routledge Revivals

2013-11-052013-11-05 Paul EinzigPaul Einzig

Therein lies the tragedy of the pound. But forthecollapse ofsterling theBritish Empire would have most probablycontinued itspostwar decline,andmight have shared the fate oftheempires of past generations, which collapsedor declined ...

Author: Paul Einzig

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136693397

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First published in 1932, this book discusses the suspension of the gold standard in Britain, and the economic events surrounding September 1931. It argues that despite specific errors made by individuals, groups, and individual nations, the attempts to save the pound had little chance of recovery. Indeed, years before its collapse, powerful, fundamental factors had been eroding its stability. Hence, the author does not entirely blame the influence of French policy, or Great Britain’s political and economic decline after the war, but states that the collapse of sterling was co-ordinated by several factors of importance.

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Updated Edition The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Updated Edition

2003-01-172003-01-17 John J. MearsheimerJohn J. Mearsheimer

Snyder, Myths of Empire, p. 21. Also see ibid., pp. 1–3, 61–62; and Van Evera, Causes of War. 109. Snyder, Myths of Empire, p. 308. 110. Snyder, for example, maintains in Myths of Empire that the aggressive behavior of great powers can ...

Author: John J. Mearsheimer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393076240

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"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of EmpireThe Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

2019-02-062019-02-06 Martin ThomasMartin Thomas

Marc- William Palen Historians have been busy chipping away at the myth of the exceptional American Empire, usually with an eye towards the British Empire. Most comparative studies of the two empires, however, focus on the pre-1945 ...

Author: Martin Thomas

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

ISBN: 9780198713197

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

The Tragedy of the TemplarsThe Tragedy of the Templars

2012-11-012012-11-01 Michael HaagMichael Haag

Seeing the Christians within his empire divided between the arguments of Arius and Athanasius, in 325 Constantine summoned the First General Council of the Church at Nicaea, a Greek city of north-west Asia Minor in what is now Turkey.

Author: Michael Haag

Publisher: Profile Books

ISBN: 9781847658548

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In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre would be destroyed, the Franks driven from Outremer, and the Templars themselves, reviled and disgraced, would face their final immolation. Michael Haag's new book explores the rise and fall of the Templars against the backdrop of the Crusader ideal and their settlement venture in Outremer. Haag argues that the Crusader States were a rare period when the population of Palestine had something approaching local rule, representing local interests - and the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin was a disaster. He contends that the Templars, as defenders of the Crusader States, were made scapegoats for a Europe whose newfound nationalism caused it to withdraw support for the Crusader venture. Throughout, he charts the Templars' rise and fall in gripping narrative, with their beliefs and actions set in the context of their time.