Description: Further DetailsTitle: Killing for the RepublicCondition: NewEAN: 9781421429861ISBN: 9781421429861Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/05/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 658gAuthor: Steele BrandLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of WarISBN-10: 1421429861Description: How Rome's citizen-soldiers conquered the world—and why this militaristic ideal still has a place in America today. "For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans . . . succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government—a thing unique in history?"—Polybius The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city. That same year in the east, Rome destroyed Corinth and subdued Greece. Over little more than a century, Rome's triumphant armies of citizen-soldiers had shocked the world by conquering all of its neighbors. How did armies made up of citizen-soldiers manage to pull off such a major triumph? And what made the republic so powerful? In Killing for the Republic, Steele Brand explains how Rome transformed average farmers into ambitious killers capable of conquering the entire Mediterranean. Rome instilled something violent and vicious in its soldiers, making them more effective than other empire builders. Unlike the Assyrians, Persians, and Macedonians, it fought with part-timers. Examining the relationship between the republican spirit and the citizen-soldier, Brand argues that Roman republican values and institutions prepared common men for the rigors and horrors of war. Brand reconstructs five separate battles—representative moments in Rome's constitutional and cultural evolution that saw its citizen-soldiers encounter the best warriors of the day, from marauding Gauls and the Alps-crossing Hannibal to the heirs of Alexander the Great. A sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Ancient History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Killing for the Republic
Title: Killing for the Republic
EAN: 9781421429861
ISBN: 9781421429861
Release Date: 11/05/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
ISBN-10: 1421429861
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Killing for the Republic : the Roman Way of War
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Military Science, Military / Ancient, Military / Strategy, Ancient / Rome
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, History
Item Weight: 23.2 Oz
Author: Steele Brand
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
