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The Tiber and the Potomac, Rome, America, and empires of trust, Thomas F. Madden

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The Tiber and the Potomac, Rome, America, and empires of trust, Thomas F. Madden

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Includes bibliographical references (guide)

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historylectures speeches

Main title

The Tiber and the Potomac

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sound recording audiobook CD

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Thomas F. Madden

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The modern scholar

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Rome, America, and empires of trust

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

Table Of 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 -- 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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