Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration - Softcover

Lintott, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415093759 ISBN 13: 9780415093750

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

The Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans acquired, kept and controlled their Empire. Lintott goes beyond the preconceptions formed in the period of British Imperial rule and provides a contemporary post-imperial approach to the Roman exercise of power.

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Synopsis:

Imperium Romanum is the first full-length book in English on the organisation of the Roman empire for over fifty years and will provide the student at all levels with a conspectus of the latest research and conclusions of all aspects of the Empire. Much important new material is now available; Andrew Lintott brings to light and discusses recent discoveries of documents preserved in inscriptions and on papyrus. The classic books on the Roman empire emerged in a period when imperial enterprise was generally exalted. These works transferred the values and preconceptions of the British empire onto that of the Romans. The stressed territorial control, defined frontiers, clear divisions of responsibility and channels of communication. More recent research by, contrast, highlights how flexible, casuistic, personal and (sometimes deliberately) ill-defined the principles and methods of Roman imperialism were. Andrew Lintott provides an up-to-date assembly of the evidence and suggests new interpretations of this material. how far did a system arise from this apparent lack of system. How far did Rome's subjects grow into a unity, which transcended the results of direct Roman coerc

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415093759
• ISBN 13: 9780415093750
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280