Empire and political cultures in the Roman world /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dench, Emma (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Series:Key themes in ancient history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Toward a Roman dialect of empire
  • Territory
  • Wealth and society
  • Force and violence
  • Time
  • Epilogue : becoming Roman?