HOW GOVERNMENT IN THE
ANCIENT WORLD
TRIED TO DEAL WITH
MODERN PROBLEMS

BY
H. J. HASKELL

NEW YORK • ALFRED A KNOPF • 1947

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK,
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright 1939 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced
in any form without permission in writing from
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magazine or newspaper.
Manufactured in the United States of America

TO

A.L.H.

WHOSE ENTHUSIASM TOOK US TO THE

PONT DU GARD, WHERE THIS

ADVENTURE BEGAN

PREFACE

AN AMATEUR is, of course, presuming to enter the field of the historian. In this case there may be mitigating circumstances. Work as a newspaper man has kept me in touch with political and economic problems in the modern world. I hope familiarity with these problems has given a fresh slant on similar problems in the past.

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The reprinting of this volume has given an opportunity to make a few minor changes. Most of these have to do with historical comparisons involving the second World War.

H. J. H.

The Kansas City Star

October 1, 1946

The Italian Maps

THE NEW DEAL
IN OLD ROME

CHAPTER I

BEGINNING AN ADVENTURE

CHAPTER II

WHEN ROME WENT MODERN

CHAPTER III

A TOUR OF ORIENTATION

Important Dates in the Tour

1000 B.C. — Shepherds’ settlement on the Tiber.

753 B.C. — Traditional date of founding of Rome.

509 B.C. — Republic established with overthrow of monarchy.

509-265 B.C. — Unification of Italy.

264-133 B.C. — Period of rapid territorial expansion.