Librería: Project HOME Books, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Very Good. hardcover Used - Very Good First Edition All purchases support Project HOME - ending homelessness in Philadelphia.
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Special order direct from the distributor.
Publicado por Liveright, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0871404230 ISBN 13: 9780871404237
Idioma: Inglés
Librería: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: NEW: First Edition hardcover (orig. 2015) Second Printing w/ no. "3", NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 pub. price top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW tan-paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & brown cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on excellent archival paper * 103 b-w illus., 16 pp. center-insert presenting 21 color illus. on superb gloss-laminated paper; 5 maps * Further Reading (537), Time-line (563), Acknowledgments (573), List of illus. (575), Index (585) * 6.46" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.72 kg, 606 pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: A FOREMOST classicist presents a SWEEPING, REVISIONIST of the Roman Empire that will become the standard for our time: Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury & filth, liberty & exploitation, civic pride & murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In "S.P.Q.R.", world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury & beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus & Remus to 212 ce (nearly 1,000 years later) when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire "S.P.Q.R." (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism & revolution, & how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce w/ the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline & Cicero, the renowned politician & orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy & autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident & self-critical empire, "S.P.Q.R." reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous & familiar characters (Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, & Nero, among others) while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves & ex-slaves, conspirators, & those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests. Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth & propaganda from historical record, refusing either simple admiration or blanket condemnation. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised & rewritten as our knowledge expands. Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last 50 years, & "S.P.Q.R.", w/ its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, & the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, promises to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARY BEARD, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University & Classics editor of the TLS, is the author of the best-selling "The Fires of Vesuvius". Professor Beard delivered the 6-part A. W. Mellon Lectures in Washington, D.C. in 2011. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, she lectures internationally & lives in Cambridge, England.
Librería: Gastown Bookwurm, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2015. First Edition/printing, both stated and with number line. 606pp. with Apparatus. This book is in Near Fine condition ( and a little better) with only the smallest signs of having been handled/read. Pages are bright, clean, & free of any markings. Binding is tight and square. Publisher's cloth boards are free of stains and sunning with a few small marks to back and edges from use- and shelf wear. DJ is whole with no tears, chips, or splits. just a small amount of wear to edges.
Publicado por Profile Books Ltd, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 1846683807 ISBN 13: 9781846683800
Idioma: Inglés
Librería: Bob' Books, Fitzroy North, VIC, Australia
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Condición: Very Good. Hardback First Edition. Very good condition.A brilliant and accessible history of ancient Rome, how it grew to power, and how it thought about itself, and a passionate argument for why it still matters to the modern world. 606 pp.
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Special order direct from the distributor.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0871404230 ISBN 13: 9780871404237
Idioma: Inglés
Librería: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. First Edition; Third Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Scuffing on top text block edge. Shelfwear on spine crown. ; 608 pages.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Co., NY, 2015
ISBN 10: 0871404230 ISBN 13: 9780871404237
Idioma: Inglés
Librería: Tom Green County Friends of the Library, San Angelo, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. dj lite shelf wear / spine dented bottom.
Publicado por Profile Books, London, 2015
Librería: Bookcase, Carlisle, Reino Unido
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Hard. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Mary Beard. Pages clean and bright, boards and binding neat, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 4to.
Librería: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: TXBA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Signed on the title page. A new copy, but foot of spine has sustained a light bump. Signed by Author(s).
Librería: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Fine. First edition. first impression. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 606pp. With colour pictorial endpapers, This is Waterstones exclusive 'extra colour plate' section edition with 10 extra colur illustrations. 21 colour illustrations in plates, 103 b&w illustrations in text and 5 maps. A brilliant and accessible history of ancient Rome, how it grew to power, and how it thought about itself, and a passionate argument for why it still matters to the modern world. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.
Librería: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. 2015, true first edition and first printing. 606pp. Illustrated endpapers. Colour plates, in-text b&w illustrations and index. Signed by the author on the title page for a fellow Newnham college alumni "For Barbara Edge (Newnham '55) with all best wishes Mary Beard" Beard read Classics at Newnham. "Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire, this is a definitive history of ancient Rome.SPQR is the Romans' own abbreviation for their state: Senatus Populusque Romanus, 'the Senate and People of Rome' - and the Senate and the people come alive in this magnificent book." Black hardback with gilt titles to spine. Book and unclipped dust jacket both in excellent condition. Ticket for a Blackwell's Mary Beard event lightly tipped in at the half title page. PLEASE NOTE: heavyish book so a little extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers. SIGNED COPY.