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Giusto Traina – The Roman World War

Giusto Traina The Roman World War review and information of the content of the book by the Italian historian. Princeton University Press will publish the Giusto Traina history book on the Roman World War, From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide, on April 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Giusto Traina The Roman World War reviews

  • “If you think you know how the Roman Republic came to an end, think again: Traina’s masterful page-turner brings the readers through a riveting, and shockingly timely, odyssey among the many peoples, places, and ideas whose violent collidings reverberate all the way to the present.” (Katherine Blouin, University of Toronto)
  • “Distinguished Sicilian historian Giusto Traina has done it again. Focusing his laser-like intellect on a relatively restricted time range yields insight on a global scale. He has totally persuaded me that the lethal combination of civil war and foreign war that afflicted the Greco-Roman world during the fourteen-year interregnum between the assassination of one Caesar and the triumph of another was indeed a world war.” (Paul Cartledge, author of Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece)

Giusto Traina The Roman World War

The Roman World War

From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide

  • Author: Giusto Traina (Italy)
  • Book type: Roman history
  • English translation: Malcolm DeBevoise
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • To be released: April 7, 2026
  • Length: 248 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the history book on the Roman World War

The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions—Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony—with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic spectacle. The Roman World War recasts the struggle for Rome as a global conflict that engulfed millions of non-Romans across Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.

Shedding new light on the pivotal years spanning Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE and the suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BCE, Giusto Traina introduces readers to lesser-known figures such as the Cilician dynast Tarcondimotus, the king of the Moors Bogud, and the Armenian king Artawazd, men who influenced Rome’s politics and who played consequential roles in battles waged far beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum. Traina demonstrates how the violence unleashed by Caesar’s death was a direct consequence of his expansionist plans. From Spain to Mesopotamia, peoples such as Berbers, Hispanics, Gauls, Greeks, Thracians, and Armenians were drawn into a global war in which the fate of Rome was tied to their own.

A global, “connected” history that transforms our understanding of the Republic’s final years, The Roman World War demonstrates how foreign nations and peoples were not merely pawns in the Roman civil wars but active protagonists in a great power struggle that shook the ancient world for fourteen intense years.

Giusto Traina was born in 1959 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at Sorbonne University in Paris and Professor of Roman History at the University of Salento in Lecce. He is the author of several books on ancient history, including 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire.

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Sergio Luzzatto – The First Fascist

Sergio Luzzatto The First Fascist review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie over het sensationele leven en de duistere erfenis van de markies de Morès. Op 10 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Harvard University Press de biografie van Marquis de Morès, de Frans-Italiaanse markies die gezien wordt als de eerste fascist, geschreven door Sergio Luzzatto, hoogleraar Italiaanse geschiedenis aan de University of Connecticut. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Sergio Luzzatto The First Fascist review en recensie

  • “The First Fascist tells the fascinating story of a French aristocrat who made common cause with the ‘little guy’ and championed the emergent national populism and rabid antisemitism of the late nineteenth century. Engagingly written and built on solid scholarship, Sergio Luzzatto’s book chronicles the quixotic life of the Marquis de Morès as a cattleman in the American West, would-be railroad magnate in Asia, traveler in North Africa, and bitter agitator on the streets of Paris.” (Edward Berenson, author of Europe in the Modern World)
  • “Part adventurer, part entrepreneur, part ideologue, the Marquis de Morès is one of the nineteenth century’s most intriguing figures, with exploits that span three continents. And above all, as Sergio Luzzatto demonstrates in this superb biography, he is the forefather of extreme-right nationalist and antisemitic movements that remain all too familiar to this day. The First Fascist offers an indispensable, urgently relevant look at a toxic past that is also, alas, a tragic prologue.” (Caroline Weber, author of Proust’s Duchess)

Sergio Luzzatto The First Fascist

The First Fascist

The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès

  • Auteur: Sergio Luzzatto (Italië)
  • Soort boek: biografie, boek over fascisme
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvard University Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs:
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van markies de Morès, de eerste fascist

A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”

The Marquis de Morès was the first populist, white supremacist, and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he took France by storm with his inflammatory rhetoric, media savvy, and violent stunts. Decades before Mussolini, Morès invoked the fasces—the ancient Roman bundle of wooden rods—to symbolize the society he wished to create: a union of all social classes against their enemy, the Jews.

Animated from his early years by personal ambition and the loss of aristocratic status in modern, democratic France, Morès embarked on an extraordinary career spanning four continents. He ventured to the American frontier and became a cattle rancher in the Dakotas; he set out to build a railway in the jungles of Indochina. But his efforts were dogged by failure—and he blamed Jewish machinations for his defeats. Embittered, he returned to France to pursue what he saw as the mission of an upper-class Frenchman: to fight Jews and other minorities on behalf of the white proletariat. Soon he controlled a large, violent militia of disgruntled workers.

As Sergio Luzzatto makes clear, Morès both anticipated and propelled the fascist politics that erupted in the twentieth century and still resonate powerfully in our own time. Morès’s rapid political rise was halted by financial scandal, but his shadow continued to loom. In Vichy France, as Jews were being deported to Auschwitz, officials would gather to celebrate Morès’s memory.

Sergio Luzzatto is Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History at the University of Connecticut. A winner of the Cundill History Prize, he is the author of The Body of Il Duce and Primo Levi’s Resistance, among other books.

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