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The Principate: How Augustus Invented the Roman Emperor
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Book One of The Shape of Roman Power. A focused constitutional history of how Augustus and his successors ruled Rome as autocrats for two centuries while insisting, in law and in stone, that the Republic still governed itself — the settlements of 27 and 23 BC, the Julio-Claudian succession crises, the adoptive "golden century," and the Crisis of the Third Century that ended it.
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- Introduction, eight thematic chapters, a full chronology and a chapter on the historiographical debate
- A4 and US Letter PDFs, plus a mobile edition and an EPUB
- A verified further-reading list of real scholarly sources
- All content newly written for this book — not a republished collection of site articles
For: Readers who want the constitutional machinery of the Roman Empire in one sitting.
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