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  title info:
    title: Provincial soldiers and imperial instability in the Histories of Tacitus
  name:
    name part: Master, Jonathan Ronald
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Tacitus' narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, courtiers, and victims of the principate; even recent work on the Histories either passes over or lightly touches upon civil unrest and revolts in the provinces. In Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus, Jonathan Master looks beyond imperial politics and finds threats to the Empire's stability among unassimilated foreign subjects who were made to fight in the Roman army. Master draws on scholarship in political theory, Latin historiography, Roman history, and ethnic identity to demonstrate how Tacitus presented to his contemporary audience in Trajanic Rome the dangerous consequences of the city's failure to reward and incorporate its provincial subjects. Master argues that Tacitus' presentation of the Vitellian and Flavian armies, and especially the Batavian auxiliary soldiers, reflects a central lesson of the Histories: the Empire's exploitation of provincial manpower (increasingly the majority of all soldiers under Roman banners) while offering little in return, set the stage for civil wars and ultimately the separatist Batavian revolt.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. The Batavian revolt I : the risks of reliance on provincial soldiers -- 2. "Adhuc immotus" : the condition of Roman dominion -- 3. The annalistic structure of the Histories -- 4. The Batavian revolt II : failures of imagination -- 5. "Chattorum quondam populus" : lessons of the Histories -- Conclusion.
  note: Jonathan Master.
  note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and indexes.
  subject:
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    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tacitus, Cornelius
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Biography
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Flavians, 69-96
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 68-69
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  classification: DG286 .M377 2016
  identifier: 9780472121847
  identifier: 0472121847
  identifier: 9780472119837
  identifier: 0472119834
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MiU
    record creation date: 160314
    record change date: 20221129150658.0
    record identifier: in00004606104
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng