Violência na história

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En Hispania fueron necesarios dos siglos de lucha sin cuartel para doblegar el ánimo belicoso e inquebrantable de íberos, celtíberos, lusitanos, cántabros. El autor busca resucitar a los héroes legendarios- el estratega Aníbal, el guerrero Viriato, el carismático líder Escipión, el incomparable genio Julio César, los andaluces Trajano y Séneca, emperador y maestro de emperadores. Todos ellos protagonistas de la epopeya que culminó con la Pax Romana, que alcanzó todas las orillas del Mediterráneo gracias a Octavio Augusto.

Ferviente admirador de la antiguo Roma, Edward Gibbon se preguntó por las causas de que un imperio tan impresionante acabara desapareciendo. Tras más de una década de trabajo, su respuesta fue la extraordinaria Decadencia y caída del Imperio romano, un clásico indiscutible tanto a nivel historiográfico, que arranca en uno de los momentos álgidos de Roma y finaliza con el desplome de Bizancio, ha mantenido su vigencia y su valor hasta hoy.Esta edición recoge los pasajes más relevantes de esta obra, que originalmente se publicó en seis tomos. Por lo demás, gracias a las anotaciones...