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Rome : an empire's story / Greg Woolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolf, Greg.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism.
- History.
- Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Politics and government.
- Imperialism--History--To 1500.
- Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Woolf expertly recounts how the mammoth Roman 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199775293
- 019977529X
- OCLC:
- 755904456
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