Empires of Trust
Subtitle: How Rome Built - and America is building--a New World
By: by Thomas F. Madden.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780525950745
Subjects: Comparative civilization; Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C; United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Public opinion; United States -- Foreign public opinion
Description: An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history

Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation's future.

Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead.

Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Empires of trust, and the other ones; title: Distrusting kings; title: Family values; title: Building an empire while avoiding one; title: Becoming a superpower; title: Greek art and French fashion : the empire and its aging cultural parents; title: How an empire of trust grows, and grows; title: Pax; title: Fights around the dinner table of empire; title: The threat of terrorism; title: Crying over the fall.