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text. His treatment of the Punic Wars is particularly detailed and offers insight into the reasons why the Romans went to war and how they acquired an empire.

      4 Steel, Catherine E. W.(2013). The End of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Part of the same series as Rosenstein, Steel focuses on the Late Republic. She focuses especially on key issues such as freedom and honor, and power, greed and ambition, and explores the processes that transformed Rome from a republic to a monarchy. She depicts Rome as a dynamic and evolving system reflecting continuous changes in citizenship and in the elite classes.

      5 Woolf, Greg(2012). Rome: An Empire’s Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Woolf offers a concise history of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire that followed the accession of Augustus. His focus is to consider Rome as an empire in theoretical terms and he often compares Rome to other world empires (China, for example), which helps show both the ways in which Rome behaved like other empires and ways in which it was unique.