Rome In America

Author : Peter R. D'Agostino
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807863411

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Rome in America by Peter R. D'Agostino Pdf

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an "American Catholicism," a national faith responsive to domestic concerns, disengaged from the disruptive ideological conflicts of the Old World. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait. In his narrative, Catholicism in the United States emerges as a powerful outpost within an international church that struggled for three generations to vindicate the temporal claims of the papacy within European society. Even as they assimilated into American society, Catholics of all ethnicities participated in a vital, international culture of myths, rituals, and symbols that glorified papal Rome and demonized its liberal, Protestant, and Jewish opponents. From the 1848 attack on the Papal States that culminated in the creation of the Kingdom of Italy to the Lateran Treaties in 1929 between Fascist Italy and the Vatican that established Vatican City, American Catholics consistently rose up to support their Holy Father. At every turn American liberals, Protestants, and Jews resisted Catholics, whose support for the papacy revealed social boundaries that separated them from their American neighbors.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : HMH
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780547527079

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Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy Pdf

What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262288293

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Why America Is Not a New Rome by Vaclav Smil Pdf

An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles. 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, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, 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. Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, focuses on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation; and demographic and economic basics—population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome's.

Author : Margaret Malamud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444305081

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Ancient Rome and Modern America by Margaret Malamud Pdf

Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role thenarratives and images of Rome have played in America’sunderstanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historicalcontext, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at portrayals of Rome in different media: writing,architecture, theatre, painting, World’s Fairs andExpositions, and film Beautifully illustrated with over 40 high quality photographsand figures

Author : Thomas F. Madden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440631399

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Empires of Trust by Thomas F. Madden Pdf

An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation's future. Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead. Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration.

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062997470

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First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.

Author : John JAY (Grandson of Governor John Jay.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019569231

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Rome in America. An address before the Bible Society ... 1868 by John JAY (Grandson of Governor John Jay.) Pdf

Author : Brian Wood,Justin Giampaoli
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506704999

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Rome West by Brian Wood,Justin Giampaoli Pdf

An alt-history account of the founding of America, as a lost fleet of Roman soldiers arrives a thousand years before Columbus. In AD 323, a fleet of Roman ships is lost in a storm, and they find themselves on the shores of the New World, one thousand years before Columbus. Unable to return home, they establish a new colony, Roma Occidens, radically altering the timeline of America and subsequent world events as seen through the eyes of one family. An exploration in alternative history from Brian Wood, Justin Giampaoli, and Andrea Mutti.

Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009249591

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Rome and America by Dean Hammer Pdf

Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected places: early American travelogues, westerns, bare-knuckle boxing, early American theater, government documents detailing Native American policy, and the writings of Noah Webster, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Eastman. This innovative volume culminates in an interpretation of the current crisis of democracy as a reversion of the community back to Strangers, with suggestions of how the myth can recast a much-needed discussion of identity and belonging.

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093823

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Mortal Republic by Edward J. Watts Pdf

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

Author : Justin Dewey Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : OCLC:5821701

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Rome in America by Justin Dewey Fulton Pdf

Author : Walter Signorelli
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781480863422

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Rome and America: The Great Republics by Walter Signorelli Pdf

In innumerable ways, the United States of America is the political and social descendant of the Roman Republic, and the influences of Rome reverberate throughout our world. Yet while America reflects the heights of Roman structures, ideas, and principles, we also now face a host of problems similar to those that the Romans faced—immigration and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the growing divide between classes, the conflict between conservatives and progressives, and the challenges of being a superpower. In Rome and America: The Great Republics, author Walter Signorelli chronicles and compares these two greatest and enduring republics of history, explaining how they formed, grew, and prospered. He evaluates their strengths and weaknesses, the environments from which they emerged, and the values and practices they had in common. Signorelli also explores parallels between American and Roman military history, similarities between their constitutional governments, and the legacy of Roman law in America. Last, he questions whether our democratic-republican government will disintegrate as the Roman Republic disintegrated, whether it will grow stronger despite its similarities to the Roman experience, or whether it will transform itself into another form of government akin to Rome’s imperial dictatorship. More than an historical narrative or a collection of biographies, Rome and America: The Great Republics examines the political, social, economic, and moral factors that affected both nations, considering the successes and mistakes of the Romans and their implications for American society today.

Author : Justin Dewey Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : CHI:59798808

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Rome in America by Justin Dewey Fulton Pdf

Author : David A. Lupher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0472031783

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Romans in a New World by David A. Lupher Pdf

Explores the impact the discovery of the New World had upon Europeans' perceptions of their identity and place in history

Author : Guglielmo Ferrero
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338111425

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Ancient Rome and Modern America; A Comparative Study of Morals and Manners by Guglielmo Ferrero Pdf

The book begins by making the point that it is non-judgemental and does not intend to come down in favour of either Ancient Rome or Modern America. It intends to provide arguments and reasoning to allow the reader to make his/her own judgements. The author begins by asking the reader to question what is understood by 'progress'. Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, who devoted his writings to classical liberalism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times in six years.