Empires Of Trust by Thomas F. Madden
This book argues that Rome’s rise and fall can be understood through the formation and erosion of networks of personal and institutional trust: patronage, clientage, citizenship, and legal expectations that bound individuals and communities together across distance and diversity. It traces how those trust-based practices and innovations—alongside military loyalty, administrative adaptation, expansion, and economic change—enabled rapid integration and governance, but how growing inequality, privatized power, commercialization, and the breakdown of reciprocal obligations eventually corroded those bonds and opened the way to autocratic rule.
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