The Romans : from village to empire /
Introduces ancient Rome offering a concise understanding of its political, social, and cultural history. This book traces Rome's remarkable evolution from monarchy, to republic, to one-man rule by an emperor whose power stretched from Scotland to Iraq, and far up the Nile valley.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Early Italy
- Rome's first centuries
- Rome and Italy in the fourth century
- The beginnings of a Mediterranean empire
- Italy and empire
- Italy threatened, enfranchised, divided
- The domination of Sulla and its legacy
- End of the republic: Caesar's dictatorship
- Augustus and the transformation of the Roman World
- The early principate (A.D. 14-69): the Julio-Claudians, the Civil War of 68-69, and life in the early empire
- Institutionalization of the principate: military expansion and its limits, the empire and the provinces (69-138)
- Italy and the provinces: civil and military affairs (138-235)
- The third century, the dominate, and Constantine.