| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Key themes in ancient history |
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Key themes in ancient history.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-198) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139028776 |
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1139028774 |
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