Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer

Cary M. Barber, Ph.D. (2016), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Bernardino. He has written on political culture in the Roman Middle Republic, ancient demography, and Late Antique administration and culture.

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Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer


 Cary M. Barber





Abstract


Keywords


 1 The ‘Long Nineteenth Century’ of Historiography


 2 Prelude to Niebuhr’s ‘Historiography of the Future’


 3 Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s ‘Revolution’


 4 In the Shadow of Mommsen


 5 Münzer, Gelzer, and the ‘Social Scientific’ Tradition


 6 Perspectives on Roman Politics, Past and Present


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