Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

Tenney Frank

Benjamin Dean Meritt

Charles William Emil Miller

Harold Fredrik Cherniss

Henry Thompson Rowell

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American Journal of Philology

An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome: Collingwood, R. G. Roman Britain. Van Nostrand, J. J. Roman Spain. Scramuzza, V. M. Roman Sicily. Grenier, A. La Gaule Romaine

Roman Britain, Roman Spain, Roman Sicily, La Gaule Romaine

An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome: Roman Africa, by R. M. Haywood. Roman Syria, by F. M. Heichelheim. Roman Greece, by J. A. O. Larsen. Roman Asia, by T. R. S. Broughton

Roman Africa, Roman Syria, Roman Greece, Roman Asia

Roman Africa, by R. M. Haywood. Roman Syria, by F. M. Heichelheim. Roman Greece, by J. A. O. Larsen. Roman Asia, by T. R. S. Broughton

My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion. Imperialism, as we now use the word, is generally assumed to be the national expression of the individual's "will to live." If this were always true, a simple axiom would suffice to explain every story of conquest. I venture to believe, however, that such an axiom is too frequently assumed, particularly in historical works that issue from the continent, where the overcrowding of population threatens to deprive the individual of his means of subsistance unless the united nation makes for itself "a place in the sunlight." Old-world political traditions also have taught historians to accept territorial expansion as a matter of course. For hundreds of years the church, claiming universal dominion, proclaimed the doctrine of world-empire; the monarchs of the Holy Roman Empire and of France reached out for the inheritance of ancient Rome; the dynastic families, which could hold their own in a period of such doctrine only by the possession of strong armies, naturally employed those armies in wars of expansion. It is not surprising, therefore, that continental writers, at least, should assume that the desire to possess must somehow have been the mainspring of action whether in the Spanish-American war or the Punic wars of Rome...

Roman Imperialism (Serapis Classics)

Roman tradition preserved in the first book of Livy presents a very circumstantial account of the several battles by which Rome supposedly razed the Latin cities one after another until she was supreme mistress of the Tiber valley. Needless to say, if the Latin tribe had lived in such civil discord as legend assumes, it would quickly have succumbed to the inroads of the mountain tribes, which were eagerly watching for opportunities to raid. Of course legend had to account somehow for the abandoned shrines and old place names scattered over Latium, and being unable to comprehend the slower processes of civilization, it took a more picturesque route, attached a rumor of war to a hero's name, and made the villages disappear in fire and blood.

Roman Imperialism

Tenney Frank

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