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Book Rome or the bush

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  • Author : Michael Gilchrist
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Rome or the bush written by Michael Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome Or the Bush

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  • Author : Michael Gilchrist
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780958998611
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Rome Or the Bush written by Michael Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome

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  • Author : Bruno Heller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Rome written by Bruno Heller and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome and America  The Great Republics

Download or read book Rome and America The Great Republics written by Walter Signorelli and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In innumerable ways, the United States of America is the political and social descendant of the Roman Republic, and the influences of Rome reverberate throughout our world. Yet while America reflects the heights of Roman structures, ideas, and principles, we also now face a host of problems similar to those that the Romans faced—immigration and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the growing divide between classes, the conflict between conservatives and progressives, and the challenges of being a superpower. In Rome and America: The Great Republics, author Walter Signorelli chronicles and compares these two greatest and enduring republics of history, explaining how they formed, grew, and prospered. He evaluates their strengths and weaknesses, the environments from which they emerged, and the values and practices they had in common. Signorelli also explores parallels between American and Roman military history, similarities between their constitutional governments, and the legacy of Roman law in America. Last, he questions whether our democratic-republican government will disintegrate as the Roman Republic disintegrated, whether it will grow stronger despite its similarities to the Roman experience, or whether it will transform itself into another form of government akin to Rome’s imperial dictatorship. More than an historical narrative or a collection of biographies, Rome and America: The Great Republics examines the political, social, economic, and moral factors that affected both nations, considering the successes and mistakes of the Romans and their implications for American society today.

Book Are We Rome

Download or read book Are We Rome written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows

Book Roman Fountains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marvin Pulvers
  • Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9788882651763
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book Roman Fountains written by Marvin Pulvers and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2002 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painters have immortalized them; poets have rhapsodized over them; and composers have arranged them' - here, Pulvers is referring to the wonderful array of fountains found in Rome.

Book Rome from the Ground Up

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  • Author : James H. S. McGregor
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-31
  • ISBN : 0674022637
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Rome from the Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities—architectural, historical, political, and social—that constitute Rome. A multifaceted historical portrait, this richly illustrated work is as gritty as it is gorgeous, immersing readers in the practical world of each period. James H. S. McGregor’s explorations afford the pleasures of a novel thick with characters and plot twists: amid the life struggles, hopes, and failures of countless generations, we see how things truly worked, then and now; we learn about the materials of which Rome was built; of the Tiber and its bridges; of roads, aqueducts, and sewers; and, always, of power, especially the power to shape the city and imprint it with a particular personality—like that of Nero or Trajan or Pope Sixtus V—or a particular institution. McGregor traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed, from emperors and popes to national governments including Mussolini’s. And, in archaeologists’ and museums’ presentation of Rome’s past, he shows that the documenting of history itself is fraught with power and politics. In McGregor’s own beautifully written account, the power and politics emerge clearly, manifest in the distinctive styles and structures, practical concerns and aesthetic interests that constitute the myriad Romes of our day and days past.

Book The Commercial Statistical     Annual Containing Full Statistical Reports     for the Year 1871  Compared with Several Preceding Years

Download or read book The Commercial Statistical Annual Containing Full Statistical Reports for the Year 1871 Compared with Several Preceding Years written by [Anonymus AC09659505] and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Download or read book The Assassination of Julius Caesar written by Michael Parenti and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenti presents a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence in the murder of Caesar, he sketches in the background to the crime with fascinating detail about Roman society.

Book Translation as a Set of Frames

Download or read book Translation as a Set of Frames written by Ali Almanna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioned as a much needed celebration of the massive strides made in translation and interpreting studies, this eclectic volume takes stock of the latest cutting-edge research that exemplifies how translation and interpreting might interact with such topics as power, ideological discourse, representation, hegemony and identity. In this exciting volume, we have articles from different language combinations (e.g. Arabic, English, Hungarian and Chinese) and from a wide range of sociopolitical, cultural, and institutional contexts and geographical locales (China, Iran, Malaysia, Russia and Nigeria). Those chapters also draw on a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches (e.g. critical discourse analysis, Bourdieu’s sociological theories, corpus linguistics, narrative theory and structuration theory), focusing on translation and interpreting relating to various settings and specialised genres (traditional media, digital media, subtitling, manga, etc.). As such, this volume serves as a dynamic forum for intercultural and interlingual communication and an exciting arena for interdisciplinary dialogues, thus enabling us to look beyond the traditionally more static, mechanical and linguistics-oriented views of translation and interpreting. This book appeals to scholars and students interested in translation and interpreting studies and issues of power, ideology, identity in interlingual and intercultural communication.

Book Rome and The Guidebook Tradition

Download or read book Rome and The Guidebook Tradition written by Anna Blennow and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called ’Baedeker effect’ in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the ‘guidebook tradition’ is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.

Book A Bird in the Bush

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  • Author : Dowling Campbell
  • Publisher : Algora Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 087586340X
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book A Bird in the Bush written by Dowling Campbell and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seven studies by history and political science specialists, Bush's policies are examined, from taxes to employment, the environment, sex education, social security, health care and the war in Iraq--Provided by publisher.

Book The War of the Rebellion

Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

Book Bush s Fringe Government

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  • Author : Garry Wills
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781590172100
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Bush s Fringe Government written by Garry Wills and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  George Bush  1989

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States George Bush 1989 written by Bush, George and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lion s Share

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  • Author : Bernard Porter
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-10-04
  • ISBN : 1000176606
  • Pages : 427 pages

Download or read book The Lion s Share written by Bernard Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its ‘imperial’ implications, the sixth edition of The Lion’s Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present. Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this book presents a broad narrative of events and explores a number of general themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations of British imperialism, as well as the simplistic ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments put forward in today’s ‘history wars’. Bernard Porter sees imperialism as a symptom not of Britain's strength in the world, but of her decline, and he argues that the empire itself both aggravated and obscured deep-seated malaise in the British economy. This sixth edition includes a final epilogue that engages with what Brexit means for British Imperial History, and whether it represents an extension of or final conclusion to Britain’s Imperial Career. In so doing, the book offers readers a thorough understanding of the history of British imperialism and its heritage, extending right into the present day. Supported by maps, images and an updated chronology, The Lion’s Share is the perfect resource for both students and those interested in British and Imperial History from the Victorian era to the modern day.