MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03186pam a2200337 a 4500
001 4191649
005 20221027052732.0
008 021029s2003 nyu b 001 0deng
010 $a 2002041060
015 $aGBA3-X3675
020 $a1565847970 (hc.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm50960806
035 $a(NNC)4191649
035 $a4191649
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dUKM$dOrLoB-B
042 $apcc
043 $ae------$aaw-----$aff-----
050 00 $aDG267$b.P37 2003
082 00 $a937/.05/092$221
100 1 $aParenti, Michael,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50050303
245 14 $aThe assassination of Julius Caesar :$ba people's history of ancient Rome /$cMichael Parenti.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Press,$c2003.
300 $ax, 267 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229)-260 and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Tyrannicide or Treason? -- $g1.$tGentlemen's History: Empire, Class, and Patriarchy -- $g2.$tSlaves, Proletarians, and Masters -- $g3.$tA Republic for the Few -- $g4.$t"Demagogues" And Death Squads -- $g5.$tCicero's Witch-Hunt -- $g6.$tThe Face of Caesar -- $g7.$t"You All Did Love Him Once" -- $g8.$tThe Popularis -- $g9.$tThe Assassination -- $g10.$tThe Liberties of Power -- $g11.$tBread and Circuses -- $gApp.$tA Note on Pedantic Citations and Vexatious Names.
520 1 $a"Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot and demagogue, and treat his murder as the outcome of a personal feud or constitutional struggle, devoid of social content. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, the author Michael Parenti subjects these assertions of "gentlemen historians" to a bracing critique, and presents us with a compelling story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. Parenti shows that Caesar was only the last in a line of reformers, dating back across the better part of a century, who were murdered by opulent conservatives. Caesar's assassination set in motion a protracted civil war, the demise of a five-hundred-year republic, and the emergence of an absolutist rule that would prevail over Western Europe for centuries to come." "Parenti reconstructs the social and political context of Caesar's murder, offering fascinating details about Roman society. In these pages we encounter money-driven elections, the struggle for economic democracy, the use of religious augury as an instrument of social control, the sexual abuse of slaves, and the political use of homophobic attacks. Here is a story of empire and corruption, patriarchs and subordinated women, self-enriching capitalists and plundered provinces, slumlords and urban rioters, death squads and political witch-hunts."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCaesar, Julius$xAssassination.
651 0 $aRome$xPolitics and government$y265-30 B.C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115180
852 00 $bbar$hDG267$i.P37 2003