How to Stage a Coup | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 2
New Humanists
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Is It Better to Set Up a City That Has Rich Land or Poor Land?
Machiavelli sees in Rome, kind of the source of its virtue. He says it should be considered whether it is better to choose sterile places for the building of cities so that men can strain to be industrious and less seized by idleness. And you see arguments like this, when you look at theories of the Industrial Revolution: Why do certain places become industrial hotspots?
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