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Empire and political cultures in the Roman world

Title
Empire and political cultures in the Roman world / Emma Dench.
Author
Dench, Emma
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xv, 207 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
Summary
This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the "Empire of the Caesars," examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the much longer history of imperial rule within which the Roman Empire emerged. Steering a course between overemphasis on resistance and overemphasis on consensus, it highlights the political, social, religious and cultural consequences of an imperial system within which functions of state were substantially delegated to, or more often simply assumed by, local agencies and institutions.
Series Statement
Key themes in ancient history
Uniform Title
Key themes in ancient history.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-198) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Toward a Roman dialect of empire -- Territory -- Wealth and society -- Force and violence -- Time -- Epilogue : becoming Roman?
Call Number
JFE 18-8886
ISBN
  • 9780521810722
  • 0521810728
  • 9780521009010
  • 0521009014
LCCN
  • 2018023528
  • 40028446035
  • 15203546
OCLC
1028228942
Author
Dench, Emma, author.
Title
Empire and political cultures in the Roman world / Emma Dench.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Key themes in ancient history
Key themes in ancient history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-198) and index.
Chronological Term
284-476
Other Standard Identifier
40028446035
15203546
Research Call Number
JFE 18-8886
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