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Can democracy, the free market and human rights survive this flood?
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Soon after the defeat of Veii, in 390 BCE a posse of marauding ‘Gauls’ sacked Rome. Exactly who these people were is now impossible to know; Roman writers were not good at distinguishing between those whom it was convenient to lump together as ‘barbarian tribes’ from the north, nor much interested in analysing their motives. But according to Livy,
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Costruire il nemico (Italian Edition)
whose authors, constrained by the course of events, never intended to be authors.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
a certain parallelism between the position of the creole magnates and of feudal barons, crucial to the sovereign’s power, but also a menace to it.