Imperialism in the Roman Republic European Problem Studies

Imperialism in the Roman Republic European Problem Studies pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025

出版者:
作者:
出品人:
页数:0
译者:
出版时间:
价格:275.00
装帧:
isbn号码:9780030776205
丛书系列:
图书标签:
  •  
想要找书就要到 图书目录大全
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

"It was not by accident or without knowing what they were doing that the

Romans boldly struck out for universal dominion and rule--and accompIished

their aim." The words were penned by the Greek historian Polybius writing at the

conclusion of more than a century of Roman expansion and conquest. By 134 B.c.

that lengthy but concentrated burst of activity had made Rome the unchallenged

mistress of the Mediterranean. To Polybius, who observed a dominion that was

secure and to all appearances complete, it was all logical and obvious. Fate had

willed it; Rome had executed it.

Hindsight is the most seductive of historical faculties--and the most misleading.

In 265, before Rome s first overseas venture, few Romans would have predicted or

anticipated the conversion of the Mediterranean into a Roman lake. The "mani-

fest destiny" might be acknowledged in retrospect; it was not postulated in ad-

vance. Imperium is a Latin word, but imperialism is a modern concept. The differ-

ence is significant and revealing. Rome created an empire, but she did not theorize

about it. Wars needed to be justified, for the gods could not condone aggressive

hostilities unless undertaken out of self-defense. But dominion following upon con-

quest was taken for granted. It received no elaborate explanations and elicited few

misgivings. Cicero might criticize Asia for groaning under the burden of Roman

taxes when Rome had brought peace and security to an area torn by endemic civil

strife. But that too was hindsight. Similarly, when Virgil wrote that Rome s mission

was "to spare the subjected and humble the haughty," he was looking upon an

empire already fully formed. But Rome had launched her expansion without

missionary zeal, without a self-conscious plan to civilize the world, without the

comforting illusion of a "white man s burden." Nineteenth-century Britain may

have been buoyed by a sense of superiority, a drive to bring superior culture to the

"underdeveloped." Rome embarked on expansion with no such ambitions or illu-

sions. The civilization of Carthage was at least as old as that of Rome. Greek

civilization was much older. The Roman sense of superiority was the product of,

not the motive for, war and conquest.

具体描述

读后感

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

用户评价

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

相关图书

本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度google,bing,sogou

© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有