Rome victorious the irresistible rise of the Roman Empire /
"Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast t...
| Main Author: | Hoyos, B. D. 1944- |
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| Other Authors: | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London ; New York :
I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates): illustrations. |
| Series: |
Ebook Central (EBC)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Rome before empire: hegemony over Italy
- Mediterranean hegemony and the first provinces
- The provinces of the Republic
- The political impoverishment of the imperial republic
- Augustus: the greatest imperialist
- Imperial takings and leavings, AD
- The new Romans
- Governing and misgoverning
- Judging the empire: Romans and others
- Resistance
- How Roman was the Roman Empire?.