The Tiber and the Potomac : Rome, America, and Empires of Trust
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"14 lectures"--Container.
Compact disc.
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.
Lecture given by Thomas F. Madden.
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.
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SERIES
The Modern scholar.
PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (40 p. : col. ill.).
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781436169325 (sound discs)
1436169321 (sound discs)
9781436169332 (guide)
143616933X (guide)
SUBJECTS
Comparative civilization.
Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C.
Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
United States -- Politics and government.
Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
United States -- History.