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Empires of trust : how Rome built--and America is building--a new world / Thomas F. Madden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Madden, Thomas F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--History--21st century.
- United States--Public opinion.
- United States--Foreign public opinion.
- Comparative civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, [2008]
- Contents:
- Empires of trust
- and the other ones
- Distrusting kings
- Family values
- Building an empire while trying not to
- Becoming a superpower
- The empire and its aging cultural parents
- How an empire of trust grows
- and grows
- Pax
- Fights around the dinner table of empire
- The threat of terrorism
- Crying over the fall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780525950745
- 0525950745
- OCLC:
- 192050132
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