| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5 |
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Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
The Roman conquest of Italy / Stephen Oakley -- Fear, greed and glory : the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic / John Rich -- Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities / Adam Ziolkowski -- Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic / John Patterson -- Roman poetry and anti-militarism / Duncan Cloud -- The end of Roman imperial expansion / Tim Cornell -- Roman peace / Greg Woolf -- Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication / David Braund -- War and diplomacy : Rome and Parthia, 31 BC-AD 235 / Brian Campbell -- Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate / Harry Sidebottom -- The end of the Roman army in the western empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire / Dick Whittaker |
| Summary |
The impact of war on ancient society is the subject of this book and the companion volume, War and Society in the Greek World. Earlier studies of ancient warfare have concentrated on political causes, tactics, strategy and military organisation. In these volumes warfare is viewed rather as a species of social action, affecting and affected by social conditions and ideologies, and having social, economic and cultural consequences. The central theme of this volume is the shifting relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body. The dominant role of war in Roman life under the Republic is examined, together with the related themes of Roman expansion and its consequences for both the Romans and those they conquered. Under the Principate expansion largely stopped and the inhabitants of the empire enjoyed the Roman peace protected by a professional army. A number of chapters focus on these changes, explaining how they came about, analysing their effect on attitudes to war and probing the extent to which the peace was a reality. The Late Empire is studied in the final chapters, which document the rise of warlords and, in the west, the final disappearance of the Roman army. This volume will be of great interest to all those concerned with Roman history, or more generally with the relationship between warfare and historical societies |
| Analysis |
War History |
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Roman Empire |
| Notes |
Selected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, 1988-1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Rome -- History
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Sociology, Military -- Rome -- History
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HISTORY -- Military -- Pictorial.
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Military art and science
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Sociology, Military
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Oorlogvoering.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Militarismo.
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Armées -- Rome.
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Politique militaire -- Rome.
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Art et science militaires -- Rome -- Histoire.
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Sociologie militaire -- Rome -- Histoire.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115172
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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Romeinse rijk.
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Rome -- Histoire militaire.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rich, John, 1944-
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Shipley, Graham
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| LC no. |
92036698 |
| ISBN |
0203075544 |
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9780203075548 |
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9780415066440 |
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0415066441 |
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6610328900 |
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9786610328901 |
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9781134919918 |
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1134919913 |
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9781134919864 |
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1134919867 |
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9781134919901 |
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1134919905 |
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9780415755726 |
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0415755727 |
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1280328908 |
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9781280328909 |
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