The fall of republics a history from ancient Carthage to the American Constitution
"What caused the world's great republics to fall -- and what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies today. In this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors that led to the collapse of some of the world's most enduring republi...
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Princeton University Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Simple Governments : One, Few, and Many
- A Military Republic : Sparta
- A Commercial Republic : Carthage
- End of Monarchy : The Foundation of the Roman Republic
- Senate and People : The Shape of the Roman Republic
- New World Order : A Republic to Govern an Empire
- Divisions Born of Affluence : The Gracchi and the Rise of Partisan Warfare
- Appeal to the People : The Growth of Populism and the Military Response
- Too Many Victors : The Fall of the Roman Republic
- Escape to a Watery World : The Foundation of the Republic of Venice
- Medieval Republic, Modern World : The Fall of the Republic of Venice
- The Republican Planners : Imagining Republics in the Renaissance and Enlightenment
- Plansinto Action : Republicanism in Restoration England and Absolutist France
- America's Failed Constitutions
- John Adams, Fallen Republics, and the Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
- Lessons of Fallen Republics and the Framing of the U.S. Constitution
- The Fabric of Republics
- Fallen Republics and America's Third Century
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
