Unfortunately, the United States that exists today has not lived up to that heritage. In this series, we look at America’s transformation from republic to empire and the consequences of Washington’s ...

His assassination later that year was intended to restore the Republic, but instead it triggered a series of civil wars, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Roman Empire under Caesar’s ...

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

But there is one inescapable aspect of empire that the commentators missed. Empires are weak. It is republics in contrast that are strong. The United States is a republic that has been operating ...

Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822–1930 is a selection of five chapters from volumes III and IV - three on the Empire (1822–89) and two on the First Republic (1889–1930) - brought together to provide a ...

The Empress is based on the collapse of the Austrian Empire, marked by internal strife, war from outside, and the subsequent ...

Adoptions under the Republic have often been deduced from nomenclature alone, a technique now discredited for examples from the Imperial period (Chapter 6; Salomies [1992]). This discussion is ...

[40] Permanent courts, such as the extortion court established by the lex Calpurnia, had been established in the middle republic primarily to try crimes against the state and extortion of the populace ...