Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index
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The crises of the later second century BC -- Domestic politics: violence and its accommodation -- Imperial power: failure and control -- The social war, civil war and the imposition of a new order -- The limits of autocracy -- The end of the Republic, 70-44 BC -- Imperial expansion: novelty and success -- Elite competition, popular discontent and the failure of collective government