HOOKE, Nathaniel.

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The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. First editions of Hooke's "radical and subversive interpretation of Roman history as class conflict" (Marsden, p. 52). Originally intended as a revised translation of previous French scholarship, in the event he presented an original argument that the demise of the Republic was the fault of the aristocracy.Hooke died immediately before the publication of the third volume, and the Scottish historian Gilbert Stuart completed the work.

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