1. Claudius The God
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   
2. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
3. The Ecology of Freedom
   The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
4. Empire of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
5. The First Century
   Emperors, Gods, and Everyman
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
6. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
   Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
7. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
   Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
8. A Marxist History of the World part 16: Roman Military Imperialism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Rome represented a unique fusion of Greek-style citizenship with Macedonian-style militarism. The result was the most dynamic imperialist state in the ancient world.
9. A Marxist History of the World part 17: The Roman Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Neil Faulkner looks at the Roman Revolution - a complex, distorted, century-long process of class struggle.
10. A Marxist History of the World part 18: The Crisis of Late Antiquity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner explains how the Roman Empire entered its terminal crisis as its military imperialism came up against geographical, economic, and sociological barriers to expansion.
11. A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
12. A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
13. A Marxist History of the World part 30: The rise of western feudalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Following the collapse of the Roman Empire Western Europe became a politically fragmented region of warring states from which a radically new social, military, and political order developed.
14. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
15. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
16. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
17. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
18. Spartacus
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Leader of major slave revolt against the Roman Empire. (c. 109 BC-71 BC).

Experts on Roman Empire in the Sources Directory

1. J. Paul Getty Museum