Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC û AD 476
, by Faulkner,Neil- ISBN: 9780582784956 | 0582784956
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/18/2008
A major new single volume history of the greatest empire of antiquity, which challenges the orthodox view that Romewas a bringer of civilisation.This controversial book presents Rome as an exploitative, violent and unstable systemIt tells how Rome's search for plunder to feed itself led eventually to a self-destructive process that ate away at the system's socio-economic foundationsCovers the rise and fall in one comprehensive volume