Enduring empire
Subtitle: ancient lessons for global politics
By: edited by David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780802097620; 9780802095213
Description: Explores ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the mirror of antiquity : the problem of American empire / David C. Hendrickson; title: Democracy and empire : the case of Athens / Laurie M. Johnson Bagby; title: Empire by invitation of domination? : The difference between Hegemonia and Arkhē / David Edward Tabachnick; title: The freedom to rule : Athenian imperialism and democratic masculinity / Ryan K. Balot; title: Liberty and empire, with the benefit of limited hindsight; title: or, what Herodotus of Halicarnassus saw / Clifford orwin; title: Empire and the eclipse of politics / Leah Bradwhaw; title: Imperial compulsions / Toivo Koivukoski; title: Rome and the Hellenistic world : masculinity and militarism, monarchy and republic / Arthur M. Eckstein; title: Imperial power in the Roman Republic / Susan Mattern; title: The rise of global power and the music of the spheres : philosophy and history in Cicero's De re publica / Geoffrey Kellow; title: Machiavelli's model of a liberal empire : the evolution of Rome / Waller R. Newell; title: Post-9/11 evocations of empire in light of Eric Voegelin's political science / John von Heyking; title: Athens as Hamlet : the irresolute empire / Barry Strauss.