Tag: Rome

Free Download Peter Heather, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West"
English | ISBN: 030027372X | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next

Free Download Invasion!: Rome Against the Cimbri, 113-101 BC by Philip Matyszak
English | January 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1399097318 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 0.95 MB
Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the first battles against the Cimbri were a series of disasters. These culminated in the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC when two Roman armies were utterly destroyed.

Free Download Mary R. Lefkowitz, "Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation"
English | ISBN: 1421421135 | 2016 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
The essential collection of source materials on the lives of women in the ancient world.

Free Download Judge Antonio Cassese, Albin Eser, Giorgio Gaja, "The Rome Statute for an International Criminal Court: A Commentary, multi-volume set"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0198298625 | PDF | pages: 1815 | 11.1 mb
These volumes offer an opportunity to revisit the whole of international criminal law. It appraises the contribution made to international criminal law by post-World War II national criminal courts and tribunals, and it makes a critical assessment of the Rome Statute as a viable working tool for international criminal justice.

Free Download Nathan S. Rosenstein, "Rome at War: Farms, Families and Death in the Middle Republic "
English | ISBN: 0807828394 | 2004 | 339 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 133 BC the tribune Tiberius Gracchus issued his lex agraria to redistribute land amongst veteran soldiers and the poor. In his interesting and perceptive study Nathan Rosenstein re-examines the reasons for this agrarian crisis that Gracchus, so unpopularly, responded to. Past studies have argued that an increase in large plantations manned by a rapidly growing population of slave labourers had damaged Rome’s farmers and small holders. However, Rosenstein argues that there is little archaeological or documentary evidence for this and looks instead to the consequences of warfare, particularly the war against Hannibal. Rosenstein discusses in detail the nature of the Roman family, the amount of labour required to make a success of a farm and, set against this, the consequences of losing that labour (and the potential of fathering the next generation of farmers). Sections also examine methods for quantifying the numbers of men killed in battle or through disease following injury. The numbers are enormous and one can immediately see the difficulty facing the Roman senate of how to replenish the ranks.

Free Download Anna Blennow, "Rome and The Guidebook Tradition: From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century"
English | ISBN: 3110610442 | 2019 | 3
65 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Free Download Pocket Rough Guide Rome (Pocket Rough Guides), 6th Edition by Rough Guides
English | July 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 1835290094 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 66.71 MB
This compact, pocket-sized Rome travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Rome. It’s light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map.

Free Download Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat by Sarah Murray
English | October 28, 2008 | ISBN: 9780312428143 | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.79 Mb
Today the things we eat and drink have crossed oceans, continents, and even airspace before reaching the dinner table. The complex systems and technologies devised throughout the centuries to deliver our food supply reveal surprising things about politics, culture, economies-and our appetites. In Mumbai, India’s chaotic commercial capital, men use local trains, bicycles, and their feet to transport more than 170,000 lunches a day from housewives to their husbands, with almost no mix-ups. Modern shipping containers allow companies to send frozen salmon to China, where it can be cheaply thawed, filleted, and refrozen, before traveling back to the United States where it’s sold in supermarkets as fresh fish. Moveable Feasts takes a novel look at the economics, logistics, and environmental impact of food, and brings new perspective to debates about where we get our meals.

Free Download In Love with Rome: Recipes and Stories from the Eternal City
by Lisa Nieschlag, Lars Wentrup
English | July 11, 2024 | ISBN: 1784886947 | 176 pages | EPUB | 96 Mb

Free Download Cullen Murphy, "Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0547052103, 0618742220 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.5 mb
What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: "If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this."-Thomas E. Ricks