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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. He argues that Greece's rise was no miracle but rather the result of political breakthroughs and economic development.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xi, 148 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An indispensable introduction to Roman society, culture, law, politics, religion, and daily life as they relate to the study of the New Testament.The Roman Empire formed the central context in which the New Testament was written. Anyone who wishes to understand the New Testament texts must become familiar with the political, economic, societal, cultural, and religious aspects of Roman rule. Much of the New Testament deals with enabling its readers...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 422 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, the Crusaders, and the Ottomans. Napoleon had to secure it in 1799 to launch his...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam. The formation of a new social and economic order in western Europe in the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries, and the ascendancy across the West of a new culture of military lordship, are placed firmly in the context of on-going connections...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Harvard University Press edition, 2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 941 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. And its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 888 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inscriptions are for anyone interested in the Roman world and Roman culture, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on the Roman world from c. 500 BCE to 500 CE and beyond. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is to show why inscriptions matter and to demonstrate to classicists and ancient historians, their graduate students,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 611 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Seventh edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 755 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated, this book takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic, its evolution into a full-fledged Empire, and its ultimate decline. This latest edition enhances the main narrative...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This up-to-date and well illustrated synthesis provides students and non-specialists with an...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
liv, 1068 pages, SR-14, G-14, I-79 : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This Western civilization textbook presents a survey of the evolution of the West from the pre-Biblical era to modern times. It focuses on trends and relationships affecting the various aspects of Western Civilization such as politics, economics, society and culture. Particular emphasis on cause and effect in history and reveals the cross-cultural interactions that have shaped today's world, presenting the history of the West as an ongoing process....