Empire and political cultures in the Roman world / Emma Dench.

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 evidenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dench, Emma (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Series:Key themes in ancient history.
Subjects:
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476.
Rome (Empire)
284-476
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 207 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
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.