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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807417803321

Titolo

Enduring empire : ancient lessons for global politics / / edited by David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9730-X

1-4426-9792-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

325/.3209

Soggetti

Imperialism - History

Imperialism - Philosophy

United States Foreign relations 1989-

États-Unis Relations extérieures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

In the mirror of antiquity : the problem of American empire / David C. Hendrickson -- Democracy and empire : the case of Athens / Laurie M. Johnson Bagby -- Empire by invitation of domination? : The difference between Hegemonia and Arkhē / David Edward Tabachnick -- The freedom to rule : Athenian imperialism and democratic masculinity / Ryan K. Balot -- Liberty and empire, with the benefit of limited hindsight--or, what Herodotus of Halicarnassus saw / Clifford orwin -- Empire and the eclipse of politics / Leah Bradwhaw -- Imperial compulsions / Toivo Koivukoski -- Rome and the Hellenistic world : masculinity and militarism, monarchy and republic / Arthur M. Eckstein -- Imperial power in the Roman Republic / Susan Mattern -- The rise of global power and the music of the spheres : philosophy and history in Cicero's De re publica / Geoffrey Kellow -- Machiavelli's model of a liberal empire : the evolution of Rome / Waller R. Newell -- Post-9/11 evocations of empire in light of Eric Voegelin's political science / John von Heyking -- Athens as Hamlet : the irresolute empire / Barry Strauss.



Sommario/riassunto

Explores ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations.