Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Title | Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Mortimer Wheeler |
Publisher | Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | History |
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Rome beyond the imperial frontier
Title | Rome beyond the imperial frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Mortimer Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1955 |
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Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Title | Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (Sir) |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1955 |
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The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome
Title | The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Steven K. Drummond |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781563241505 |
Discusses Rome's challenges in governing over different cultures, organizing an army made of non-Romans, inculcating Roman values and religion, feeding the army, trading, urbanizing, and industrializing. To make this work accessible to readers who lack an extensive background in Roman history, all Latin expressions are defined in the course of the discussion, a glossary is included, and modern as well as contemporary Latin names of places are used. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Review of Mortimer Wheeler's Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Title | Review of Mortimer Wheeler's Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 1956 |
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The Reach of Rome
Title | The Reach of Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Williams |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 125008380X |
The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces in history. However, few people realize that this vast empire was guarded by one frontier, a series of natural and man-made barriers, including Hadrian's Wall. It is impossible to have a true understanding of the Roman Empire without first investigating the scope of this amazing frontier. The boundary ran for roughly 4,000 miles--from Britain to Morocco via the Rhine, the Danube, the Euphrates, the Syrian Desert, and the Saharan fringes; reinforced by walls, ditches, palisades, watchtowers, and forts. It absorbed virtually the whole imperial army, enclosed three and a half million square miles, and defended forty provinces (now thirty countries) and perhaps eighty million Roman subjects. In protecting the empire the frontier made a substantial contribution to the Pax Romana and ultimately to preserving the inheritance of future Europe. Yet this static mode of defense ran counter to Rome's tradition of mobile warfare and her taste for glory, born of centuries of conquest. The emperors' choice of a passive strategy promoted lassitude and conservatism, allowing the military initiative slowly to pass into barbarian hands. The Reach of Rome is the first book to describe the entire length of the amazing imperial frontier. It traces the political forces that created it and portrays those who commanded and manned it, as well as those against whom it was held. It relates the frontier's rise, pre-eminence, crises, and collapse and assesses its meaning for history and its legacies to the post-Roman world. Finally, it also tells the story of the explorers who rediscovered its lost works and describes the nature and location of the surviving remains. Includes thirty beautifully designed maps.
Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
Title | Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Daniëlle Slootjes |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-10-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004326758 |
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.