Kaldellis puts his arguments clearly and forcefully, and explicitly labels it a revisionist book. Some Byzantinists will find the arguments come as a surprise, but perhaps not that many.

Anthony Kaldellis. The Byzantine Republic. People and Power in New Rome. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, 2015.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Mark Whittow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford