Big caesars and little caesars : how they rise and how they fall : from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
Mount, Ferdinand, 1939-2024
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Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of strong men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why caesars seize power and why they fall. There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.
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Mount, Ferdinand, 1939-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024.
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781399409728 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.340922303.34
Language:
English
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BRN:
1490266
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