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Author Salway, Peter.

Title Roman Britain / by Peter Salway
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1981

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Description xviii, 824 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Oxford history of England ; 1A
Oxford history of England ; 1A
Contents I. The first Roman contacts. The British background -- The expeditions of Caesar -- From Caesar to Claudius. II. The Roman conquest. The Claudian invasion -- Resistance and revolt -- Recovery and advance -- Hadrianic Britain -- The Antonines. III. Imperial crisis and recovery. Civil war and its aftermath -- From Caracalla to Diocletian -- The Tetrarchy -- Constantine the Great -- The middle of the fourth century -- The restoration of order. IV. Roman Britain and the fifth century world. The collapse of imperial rule -- Britain, the end of the western empire, and the successor states. V. Britain under Roman rule. The assimilation of Britain -- The historical geography of Roman Britain -- Town and country -- The economy -- Religion and society
Analysis Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
Romans Great Britain
Great Britain B.C.50-A.D.480
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 753-775
Subject Romans -- Great Britain.
Roman World.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719 -- 55 B.C.-449 A.D
Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056728
LC no. 80041811
ISBN 019821717X
9780198217176