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Author | : Nathan Rosenstein |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629998 |
A compelling account of how Rome became supreme power in Europe and the Mediterranean world. The book highlights the significance of Rome's success in the wars against Pyrrhys, Carhage, the Hellenistic kingdoms and in Spain that led to empire, and it shows how the Republic's success in conquering an empire changed the conquerors.It is unusual in focusing on a discrete, vital period in Roman history rather than attempting to cover all of it or even just the Republic.
Author | : Catherine Steel |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629025 |
In 146 BC the armies of Rome destroyed Carthage and emerged as the decisive victors of the Third Punic War. The Carthaginian population was sold and its territory became the Roman province of Africa. In the same year and on the other side of the Mediterranean Roman troops sacked Corinth, the final blow in the defeat of the Achaean conspiracy: thereafter Greece was effectively administered by Rome. Rome was now supreme in Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, and North Africa, and its power and influence were advancing in all directions. However, not all was well. The unchecked seizure of huge tracts of land in Italy and its farming by vast numbers of newly imported slaves allowed an elite of usually absentee landlords to amass enormous and conspicuous fortunes. Insecurity and resentment fed the gulf between rich and poor in Rome and erupted in a series of violent upheavals in the politics and institutions of the Republic. These were exacerbated by slave revolts and invasions from the east.
Author | : Guy Bradley |
Publisher | : Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : 9780748621095 |
Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours.
Author | : J. S. Richardson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629041 |
Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history. Within this period the Roman world was reconfigured. On a political and constitutional level the patterns of the republic, which sustained an oligarchic regime and a popularist structure, were transformed into a monarchical dictatorship in which the earlier elements continued to function. On an imperial level, the growth in Roman power reached what was virtually its apogee. In literature and the visual arts, new forms of expression, based on those of the previous generations but closely linked to the new regime, showed great achievements. In society and the economy, the effectiveness and dominance of Rome as the centre of world power became increasingly obvious.
Author | : Nic Fields |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846031458 |
Long before the Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC), Rome's influence extended no further than the Alps, and the wars that it fought consisted of small-scale raids and cattle rustling, with perhaps the occasional battle between armies. Nevertheless, within a century the seeds of an empire had been sown in Iberia, Africa, and the Greek east, and the Roman Republican army became the most successful of its day, establishing standards of discipline, organization, and efficiency that set a bench mark for the later armies of Rome. With the evolution of the Roman Republic came the adoption of the Manipular legion, a formation taken from the hoplite phalanx and first used in mass deployment against the North African nation of Carthage, during the Punic Wars. In this book Nic Fields examines the evolution of the Roman army from its defeat at Cannae through to their final success at Zama which saw a small city-based force evolve into a Mediterranean powerhouse, demonstrating how and why it became the most highly organized, sophisticated force in the ancient world.
Author | : Greg Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199325189 |
A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire
Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199916896 |
Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.
Author | : Brian Taylor |
Publisher | : Spellmount, Limited Publishers |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The rise of the Roman Empire laid the foundations for the development of much of Europe. This book is a chronological account of the formation, battles and campaigns of the Roman state, from the foundation and growth of the city under the Seven Kings, to the epic Republican struggle with Carthage, and the expansion throughout the Mediterranean.
Author | : Clifford Ando |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629203 |
The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of 'crisis'. Between 235 and 284, at least eighteen men held the throne of the empire, for an average of less than three years, a reckoning which does not take into account all the relatives and lieutenants with whom those men shared power. Compared to the century between the accession of Nerva and the death of Commodus, this appears to be a period of near unintelligibility. The middle of the century also witnessed catastrophic, if temporary, ruptures in the territorial integrity of the empire. At slightly different times, large portions of the eastern and western halves of the empire passed under the control of powers and principalities who assumed the mantle of Roman government and exercised meaningful and legitimate juridical, political and military power over millions. The success and longevity of those political formations reflected local responses to the collapse of Roman governmental power in the face of extraordinary pressure on its borders. Even those regions that remained Roman were subjected to depredation and pillage by invading armies. The Roman peace, which had become in the last instance the justification for empire, had been shattered. In this pioneering history Clifford Ando describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change.
Author | : Arthur M. Eckstein |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520259920 |
"A major contribution to the study of Roman imperialism and ancient international relations."—John Rich, University of Nottingham