How Republics Die Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond (PDF)

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Free Download Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, "How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 3111650278 | 2025 | 555 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome.

This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats. The Late Roman Republic is the main focus, with a mix of large-scale thematic and analytical chapters paired with more detailed case studies, from some of the leading scholars in the field. Other chapters widen the scope, analysing comparable cases from ancient Athens to Napoleon to Hitler's Germany and Franco's Spain.
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