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Download or read book How Tyrants Fall written by Marcel Dirsus and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE 'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA HOYER 'Utterly compelling . . . jaw-dropping' BRIAN KLAAS 'Fascinating, wide-ranging . . . highly-entertaining' PETER GEOGHEGAN Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don't quietly retire - they face exile, prison or death. What happens in the aftermath can change the fate of a nation. Meeting with coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers, political scientist Marcel Dirsus draws on extraordinary interviews to examine the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. We hear from a revolutionary (codename 'Satan') who risked Stasi capture to undermine an oppressive regime, an unapologetic former leader of a Burundian rebel group which carried out a massacre, and an American-Gambian activist who plotted to liberate his homeland on breaks during his construction job. But understanding dictators isn't enough. How Tyrants Fall is the gripping, deeply researched blueprint for how to bring them down.
Book Synopsis Mortal Republic by : Edward J. Watts
Download or read book Mortal Republic written by Edward J. Watts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Download or read book The Greek Tyrants written by A. Andrewes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1956 The Greek Tyrants is concerned primarily with an early period of Greek history, when the aristocracies which ruled in the eighth and seventh centuries were losing control of their cities and were very often overthrown by a tyranny, which in its turn gave way to the oligarchies and democracies of the classical period. The tyrants who seized power from time to time in various cities of Greece are analogous to the dictators of our own day and represented for the Greeks a political problem which is still topical: whether it is ever advantageous for a State to concentrate power in the hands of an individual. Those early tyrannies are an important phase of Greek political development: the author discusses here the various military, economic, political, and social factors of the situation which produce them. The book thus forms an introduction to the central period of Greek political history and will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political thought, ancient history, and Greek philosophy.
Book Synopsis Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by : Stephen Greenblatt
Download or read book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge their appetites.
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words by : J. B. Reid
Download or read book A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words written by J. B. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Dukes and Princesses of the Family of George III by : Percy Fitzgerald
Download or read book The Royal Dukes and Princesses of the Family of George III written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Welsh Family from the Beginning of the 18th Century by : Caroline E. Williams
Download or read book A Welsh Family from the Beginning of the 18th Century written by Caroline E. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coke of Norfolk and His Friends by : Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling
Download or read book Coke of Norfolk and His Friends written by Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coke of Norfolk and His Friends by : Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling
Download or read book Coke of Norfolk and His Friends written by Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Littell's Living Age by : Eliakim Littell
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fifty Years of My Life by : George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle
Download or read book Fifty Years of My Life written by George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood of Tyrants written by Naomi Novik and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Laurence washes onto the shores of Japan with limited memories about his life, a situation that tests the strength of his bond with the dragon Temeraire.
Book Synopsis The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia by : Mark H. Munn
Download or read book The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia written by Mark H. Munn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, Munn shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods and a symbol of their own sovereignty.
Book Synopsis Memoir. The Roman (a dramatic poem) Miscellaneous poems. Sonnets on the war (the Crimean struggle) England in time of war by : Sydney Dobell
Download or read book Memoir. The Roman (a dramatic poem) Miscellaneous poems. Sonnets on the war (the Crimean struggle) England in time of war written by Sydney Dobell and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of Sydney Dobell by : John Nichol
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Sydney Dobell written by John Nichol and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
