Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 The Varieties of Empire
Lecture 2 The Founding of the Republics
Lecture 3 The Roots of Isolationism
Lecture 4 The First Encounters with a Dangerous World
Lecture 5 Securing the Horizon
Lecture 6 Superpowers
Lecture 7 Protecting the Elder Cultures
Lecture 8 A Cultural Generation Gap
Lecture 9 The Reluctant Empire of Trust
Lecture 10 The Dynamics of Trust
Lecture 11 War and Peace in a Time of Pax
Lecture 12 The Turn Inward
Lecture 13 Religious Terrorism and the Empire of Trust
Lecture 14 Decline and Fall
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Course Overview
Esteemed university professor and best-selling author
Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of
lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United
States has more in common with the rising Roman
Republic than with the declining Roman Empire. The
Tiber and the Potomac explores the amazing parallels
between history’s two most unusual superpowers. Both
nations built empires based on trust, skillfully making
friends of enemies. During the course of these lectures,
Madden not only reveals these often surprising
similarities, but also extracts useful principles from
history, including vital lessons from Rome’s 100-year
struggle with terrorism.
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 The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Thomas F. Madden
(Saint Louis University)
Thomas F. Madden is a professor of
history and director of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint
Louis University. His numerous scholarly
publications include Empires of Trust: How
Rome Built—and America Is Building—a
NewWorld (Dutton, 2008), The New
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Course Final Exam
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