BOOKS by Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution more books like this

by Sir Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment ...

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De Soto, finder of the Mississippi. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Spanish explorer who searched for gold in Florida and who was the first white man to cross the Mississippi River.

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La Salle of the Mississippi

by Ronald Syme

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Cartier: Finder of the St. Lawrence

by Ronald Syme

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Magellan : first around the world more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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Champlain of the St Lawrence more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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History in Ovid more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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Columbus, Finder of the New World; (Morrow Junior Books)

by Ronald Syme

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Tacitus: 2 Volumes more books like this

by Sir Ronald Syme

This now-classic work seeks to place Tacitus in his social and political context. Syme not only analyzes in detail Tacitus's writings, their development and style, but also his political career, using his progress through government to illustrate the process that brought new men from the western provinces to success and primacy at Rome.

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Ammianus & the Historia Augusta more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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Henry Hudson more books like this

by Ronald Syme

A biography of the explorer whose search for a shorter route to the Far East led him to discover a bay, a strait, and a river on the northeastern coast of America.

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Bolívar, the liberator. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the man who devoted his life to liberating South America and who, at the peak of his career, was president of five South American countries.

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Francisco Pizarro, finder of Peru. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

Relates the career of the Spanish soldier famed as the conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru.

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John Smith of Virginia

by Ronald Syme

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Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian explorer. more books like this

by Ronald Syme

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Sallust more books like this

by Sir Ronald Syme, Ronald Mellor (Foreword by), Sir Ronald Syme

With this classic text, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the 20th century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the ...

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Geronimo, the Fighting Apache more books like this

by Ronald Syme

A biography of the Apache chief who rose to leadership through the ranks and led one of the last great Indian uprisings in the nineteenth century.

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Cortes of Mexico

by Ronald R Syme

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Benedict Arnold: traitor of the Revolution. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

A biography of the Revolutionary War General discussing the reasons he became a traitor.

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Balboa, Finder of the Pacific

by Ronald; Stobbs Syme, William

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Captain John Paul Jones, America's fighting seaman. more books like this

by Ronald Syme, William Stobbs

As John Paul his career was undistinguished except that he was charged twice for murder; as John Paul Jones he became the founder of the American Navy and won recognition as a maritime hero.

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Zapata, Mexican rebel. more books like this

by Ronald Syme

An easy-to-read biography of the Indian who became one of the primary leaders in the Mexican Revolution.

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John Charles Fremont: The Last American Explorer more books like this

by Ronald Syme

A biography of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the western territories to settlers.

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The Augustan Aristocracy more books like this

by Sir Ronald Syme

While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus attracts assiduous study, not enough has been said about the old nobility renascent after years of civil war. One clear reason is the nature of the evidence, most of it sporadic or recondite. To be made intelligible, the theme demands constant recourse to better documented periods. The exposition ...

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Fur Trader of the North: The Story of Pierre de La Verendrye more books like this

by Ronald Syme

Biography of an eighteenth-century fur trader from New France who, while searching for a river leading to the Pacific, discovered instead areas in western North America.

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