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Imperialism, Power, and Identity : Experiencing the Roman Empire /

Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mattingly, D. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: My Roman empire
  • Imperialisms and colonialisms
  • From imperium to imperialism : writing the Roman empire
  • From one colonialism to another : imperialism and the Maghreb
  • Regime change, resistance, and reconstruction : imperialism ancient and modern
  • Power, sex, and empire
  • Ruling regions, exploiting resources
  • Landscapes of imperialism : Africa, a landscape of opportunity?
  • Metals and metalla : a Roman copper-mining landscape in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan
  • Identity and discrepancy
  • Family values : art and power at Ghirza in the Libyan pre-desert
  • Afterword: Empire experienced.