Why America Is Not a New Rome
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240 pages
"America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, goi
ISBN: 9780262288286
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Business & Entrepreneurship"Points out [why comparisons of the US] with the decline of the Roman Empire fall short."
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