Krupa, Joel (2015) Book review: why America is not a new Rome. LSE Review of Books (28 May 2015). Website.
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Abstract
America’s post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences. Joel Krupa reviews.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2017 09:59 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 14:31 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73598 |
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