Politics in the Roman Republic.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Barber, Cary Michael.

Contributor:

• E.J. Brill (Firm)
• Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

• Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.).

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Editors' Note
• Acknowledgments
• Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer
• Abstract
• Keywords
• 1 The 'Long Nineteenth Century' of Historiography
• 1.1 Foundational Historians: Niebuhr, Mommsen, Münzer, Gelzer
• 1.2 Appraising the Problem: Oblivion and the Anglosphere
• 1.3 Charting a Continuum from Past to Present
• 1.4 Avoiding Cliché
• 1.5 The 'Long Nineteenth Century' of Historiography
• 2 Prelude to Niebuhr's 'Historiography of the Future'
• 2.1 Prelude to Niebuhr's 'Historiography of the Future': Introduction
• 2.2 Prelude to Niebuhr's 'Historiography of the Future': Girard's 'Generative Violence'
• 3 Barthold Georg Niebuhr's 'Revolution'
• 3.1 Barthold Georg Niebuhr and the 'Long Nineteenth Century' (LNC)
• 3.2 Niebuhr's Historiographical Revolution
• 3.3 Niebuhr's Methodological Revolution(s): Socio-economic Studies
• 3.4 Towards a New Critique of Niebuhr
• 3.5 Critiquing Niebuhr: Niebuhr and the Gracchi
• 3.6 Niebuhr: A Final Analysis
• 4 In the Shadow of Mommsen
• 4.1 In the Shadow of Mommsen: An Introduction
• 4.2 Measuring Mommsen's Impact
• 4.3 Mommsen and the 'Constitutionalist' Model for Roman Politics
• 4.4 Mommsen's 'Constitutionalist' History: The Republic as a Spider's Web
• 4.5 A New 'Mommsenian Tradition': The Geschichte and Staatsrecht as Unified Program
• 4.6 A New Mommsenian Model: Perspectives from the Social Sciences?
• 4.7 Appraising Mommsen in a New Light
• 4.8 A New 'Mommsenian Model' and the Republic's Ideological Tundra
• 4.9 Theodor Mommsen, Christian Meier, and Modernity: A Continuum?
• 4.10 Evaluating 'The New Mommsenian Tradition': Tears in the Web?
• 4.11 Mommsen as Doyen of Republican History: A Final Evaluation
• 5 Münzer, Gelzer, and the 'Social Scientific' Tradition
• 5.1 The Emergence of a 'Social-Historical' School: Introduction
• 5.2 Münzer, Gelzer, and the Conclusion of Historiography's 'Long Nineteenth Century'
• 5.3 Gelzer's Die Nobilität and the 'Mommsenian Tradition'
• 5.4 Gelzer, Clientage, and the Factio
• 5.5 Gelzer's Impact: Friedrich Münzer and a Much-Expanded Model
• 5.6 Surveying the 'Frozen Waste'
• 5.7 Friedrich Münzer: Laudatio Funebris
• 6 Perspectives on Roman Politics, Past and Present
• 6.1 The Ascension of Sir Ronald Syme and the Movement toward Modernity
• 6.2 From 'The Long Nineteenth Century' to the 'Age of Extremes'
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Barber, Cary Michael Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer

ISBN:

• 9789004530010
• 9004530010

Publisher Number:

99992120654

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

The Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund Home Page