The Roman revolution

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1. billfruitMar 2022
   "The Roman Revolution" by Ronald Syme seems to have a very good reputation, how does it compre with this.

   https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Oxford-Paperbacks-No...

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2. billfruitMar 2022
   "The Roman Revolution" by Ronald Syme seems to have a good reputation, how does it compre with this.

   https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Oxford-Paperbacks-No...

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3. billfruitMar 2022
   "The Roman Revolution" by Ronald Syme seems to have a very good reputation on this topic.

   https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Oxford-Paperbacks-No...

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4. wisdomoftheagesDec 2018
   I didn't say that there has never been a democratic government in all of history. I said that the Roman Republic could not in any sense of the word be described as democratic. It was fundamentally and wholly governed by wealthy land-owning elites, who derived their position in the system from their wealth, despite the presence of institutions that bear a superficial similarity to institutions present in modern democracies.

   I'd really urge you to crack open an academic textbook on the subject. If you'd like to dive a little deeper, I'd recommend W.G. Runciman, "Capitalism Without Classes: The Case of Ancient Rome" (British Journal of Sociology), Wilfried Nippel, "Policing Rome" (Journal of Roman Studies), Peter Baehr, "Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World", Peter Brunt, "The Army and the Land in the Roman Revolution" and Douglass North, "Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance" which has a large stretch of summary of Roman political economy.

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