Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War

by Steele Brand

Book Overview

How Rome's citizen-soldiers conquered the world--and why this militaristic ideal still has a place in America today.

"For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans . . . succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government--a thing unique in history?"--Polybius

The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421429861
• ISBN13: 9781421429861
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher