From Caesarism to Populism: An Intellectual History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editorial Statement V
3. Preface and Acknowledgements VII
4. Contents IX
5. Contributors XIII
6. Part 1: The Death of the Roman Republic – Concepts
7. New Perspectives on Old Problems/Old Perspectives on New Problems 1
8. How Did Ancient Greek Democracies Die? Not (Normally) by Demagoguery 25
9. Consensus Breakdown: Or, How Cicero Was Wrong About Rome, and We Might Be Wrong About America 39
10. Part 2: The Death of the Roman Republic – Causation
11. Reform Unwillingness and the Death of the Roman Republic 71
12. The Role of the Economy in the Fall of the Roman Republic 123
13. Alternative Visions and Fractured Allegiances: The Role of Disillusion, Alienation and Disengagement in the Late Roman Republic 151
14. Enabling Laws, Rule of Law, and the Transformation of the Roman Republic 195
15. Dominari illi volunt, vos liberi esse – Populist Reason and Rhetoric in Sallust 227
16. Part 3: The Death of the Roman Republic – Effect
17. The View from the Periphery: Local Elites, Roman Elites, and the Western Provinces during Rome’s Crisis of the 80s BCE 249
18. In the Wake of Autocrats: The Plight of Matronae in the Late Republic 269
19. Just Another Word? The Lure of Libertas in the Seventies 289
20. Competitive Authoritarianism on the Eve of Empire: Pompeius’s New Republic of 52 BCE 307
21. Caesar and the Tribunes of the Plebs: Process and Events 331
22. Who Counts as the Roman People? Caesar’s recensus and Discriminatory Populism 363
23. Part 4: From the End of the Roman Republic to the Modern World
24. Augustus’ Res Gestae as a Revolutionary’s Manual 389
25. With a Bang or a Whimper? Reflections on the Fall of the Venetian Republic 409
26. A New Catilina or a New Cromwell? Napoleon Bonaparte and the Death of the First French Republic, 1794–1804 423
27. Part 5: The Roman Republic and the Modern World
28. From Caesarism to Populism: An Intellectual History 441
29. Dealing with Uncertainty: Cicero, Victor Klemperer and How to Cope with the Present in Moments of Crisis 457
30. The Civil War in Spain (1936–1939) and the Civil Wars in Late-republican Rome as Cases of Political and Ideological Polarisation 475
31. The Death of Democratic Republics in the 1930s: Germany, Austria, Spain 493
32. How Republics Die: The Corrosive Effects of Election ‘Conspiracism’ 511
33. Afterword: Lessons from the Graveyard 529
34. Index 535