Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 207 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139028776
Series Statement:
Key themes in ancient history
Content:
This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the much longer history of imperial rule within which the Roman Empire emerged. Steering a course between overemphasis on resistance and overemphasis on consensus, it highlights the political, social, religious and cultural consequences of an imperial system within which functions of state were substantially delegated to, or more often simply assumed by, local agencies and institutions. The book is accessible and of value to a wide range of undergraduate and graduate students as well as of interest to all scholars concerned with the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
Content:
Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Time chart -- Map of the roman empire -- Introduction -- Towards a roman dialect of empire -- Territory -- Wealth and society -- Force and violence -- Time -- Epilogue: becoming roman? -- Bibliographical essay -- Bibliography of works cited
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Aug 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521810722
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521009010
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521810722
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781139028776
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