Rome : an empire's story / Greg Woolf
2012, 1st edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443636
Physical description; xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Contents; 1. The whole story -- 2. Empires of the mind -- 3. Rulers of Italy -- 4. Imperial ecology -- 5. Mediterranean hegemony -- 6. Slavery and empire -- 7. Crisis -- 8. At heaven's command? -- 9. The generals -- 10. The enjoyment of Empire -- 11. Emperors -- 12. Resourcing Empire -- 13. War -- 14. Imperial identities -- 15. Recovery and collapse -- 16. A Christian Empire -- 17. Things fall apart -- 18. The Roman past and the Roman future. Subjects; Imperialism History To 1500. History Empire Ancient Rome. Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. Rome (Empire). Rome (Italy) History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Rome (Italy) Politics and government 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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