An accessible, 900-year history of the British aristocracy offers insight into key conflicts and the extremes that shaped aristocratic agendas while describing the influences of classical art, sports and scandals.
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An accessible, 900-year history of the British aristocracy offers insight into key conflicts and the extremes that shaped aristocratic agendas while describing the influences of classical art, sports and scandals.
Introduction -- 1. Not of some meaner sort, but of some quality -- 2. Get it they must -- 3. Give me my father's inheritance -- 4. They could not transport all the spoils -- 5. To make my fame endure -- 6. We will not that persons of place should be so neglected -- 7. Stone-dead…
Power and public finance at Rome, 264-49 BCE
by Tan, James
fromOxford studies in early empires
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Type: Book
"In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen …
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"Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff…
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"This volume brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international cast of specialists" -- dust jacket.