Rome : an empire's story / Greg Woolf.

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In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story spanning a millennium and a half of history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woolf, Greg
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History > To 1500.
Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Physical Description:xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The whole story
  • Empires of the mind
  • Rulers of Italy
  • Imperial ecology
  • Mediterranean hegemony
  • Slavery and empire
  • Crisis
  • At heaven's command?
  • The generals
  • The enjoyment of empire
  • Emperors
  • Resourcing empire
  • War
  • Imperial identities
  • Recovery and collapse
  • A Christian empire
  • Things fall apart
  • The Roman past and the Roman future.