Explains the story of Rome's rise and fall. This book shows Rome to be a system of robbery with violence. Locked into a 'world system' of military competition between rival states, it strove to accumulate war-making capacity by waging wars of plunder and organising conquered territory into a 'military-supply' economy.
A major new single volume history of the greatest empire of antiquity, which challenges the orthodox view that Romewas a bringer of civilisation.
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This controversial book presents Rome as an exploitative, violent and unstable system
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It tells how Rome's search for plunder to feed itself led eventually to a self-destructive process that ate away at the system's socio-economic foundations
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Covers the rise and fall in one comprehensive volume
