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200 1. $a Why America is not a new Rome $b Texte imprimé $f Vaclav Smil
210 .. $a Cambridge, Mass. $c MIT Press $d c2010
215 .. $a xii, 226 p. $c ill., maps $d 24 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index
327 1. $a America as a new Rome? Nihil novi sub sole ; Why America is not a new Rome. Empires,
powers, limits ; Knowledge, machines, energy ; Life, death, wealth ; Why comparisons
fail. Historical analogies and their (lack of) meaning.
330 .. $a "America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired
pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now,
with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,
comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America
Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper
than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds
profound differences." "On the surface, the vision of America as the new Rome has
resonance. There are obvious, intriguing parallels and amusing - even disconcerting
- similarities. The America-Rome analogy deserves a closer look, and this is what
Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, offers. He does this by
focusing on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent
and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation in the
two states and the importance of machines and energy sources; and demographic and
economic basics population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is
not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look
ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities
do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome's."--BOOK
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