Rome: Empire of the Eagles

A major new single volume history of the greatest empire of antiquity, which challenges the orthodox view that Romewas a bringer of civilisation.

• This controversial book presents Rome as an exploitative, violent and unstable system
• 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
• Covers the rise and fall in one comprehensive volume