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CD 937 M263t
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Summary:
Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire.
Notes:
Compact disc.
Includes bibliographical references in guide.
Lecture given by Thomas F. Madden.
Contents:
- The varieties of empire
- The fonding of the republics
- The roots of isolationsim
- The first encounters with a dangerous world
- Securing the horizon
- Superpowers
- Protecting the elder cultures
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- A cultural generation gap
- The reluctant empire of trust
- The dynamics of trust
- War and peace in a time of pax
- The turn inward
- Religious terrorism and the empire of trust
- Decline and fall.
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