Arthur M. Eckstein
Autor von Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome
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Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius and Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C., both from UC Press.
Werke von Arthur M. Eckstein
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC (2008) 31 Exemplare
Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution (2016) 20 Exemplare
The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television… (2004) — Herausgeber — 12 Exemplare
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Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (1997) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
War, warlords, and interstate relations in the ancient Mediterranean (2017) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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- 1946-09-13
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- Hempstead, New York, USA
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- Maryland, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles (BA | 1968)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA | 1970)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD | 1978) - Berufe
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This is precisely the pattern that Eckstein shows prevailed in both classical and Hellenistic Greece and the Mediterranean. When he turns his attention to the early expansion of Rome in central Italy, Eckstein shows how lucky Rome was to survive, much less to expand, surrounded as it was by other militarized states. A discussion of Roman expansion in the western Mediterranean argues that Rome was no more bellicose or militarized than other states in the region.
If Rome was not exceptionally warlike, then how does Eckstein explain Rome’s expansion? Eckstein argues that Rome’s unique willingness to integrate former enemies into a flexible alliance system and even into citizenship allowed the Republic to assemble large resources and to sustain terrible defeats while ultimately prevailing.… (mehr)