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082			_a937.06072 _bGOS
100			_aGossman, Lionel
245		4	_aThe Empire Unpossess'd
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2008
500			_aOne of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature. In Lionel Gossman's thematic and rhetorical study of Gibbon's masterpiece, the foundation of authority is seen as the historian's chief concern. The central problem of the work - the foundation of political authority - also appears in another form, Gossman contends, as a central problem of the work - that of the authority of the historical text itself.
650			_aPolitical Science
942			_cENGLISH
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