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Book Imperialism  Power  and Identity

Download or read book Imperialism Power and Identity written by David J. Mattingly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this view using insights from postcolonial studies of modern empires to offer a more nuanced understanding of Roman imperialism. Rejecting outdated notions about Romanization, David Mattingly focuses instead on the concept of identity to reveal a Roman society made up of far-flung populations whose experience of empire varied enormously. He examines the nature of power in Rome and the means by which the Roman state exploited the natural, mercantile, and human resources within its frontiers. Mattingly draws on his own archaeological work in Britain, Jordan, and North Africa and covers a broad range of topics, including sexual relations and violence; census-taking and taxation; mining and pollution; land and labor; and art and iconography. He shows how the lives of those under Rome's dominion were challenged, enhanced, or destroyed by the empire's power, and in doing so he redefines the meaning and significance of Rome in today's debates about globalization, power, and empire. Imperialism, Power, and Identity advances a new agenda for classical studies, one that views Roman rule from the perspective of the ruled and not just the rulers. In a new preface, Mattingly reflects on some of the reactions prompted by the initial publication of the book.

Book Roman Imperialism

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  • Author : Paul J. Burton
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 9004404732
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Roman Imperialism written by Paul J. Burton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria and from the North Sea to North Africa. This study analyzes the debate over Roman imperialism from ancient times to the present.

Book A Companion to Roman Imperialism

Download or read book A Companion to Roman Imperialism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman empire extended over three continents, and all its lands came to share a common culture, bequeathing a legacy vigorous even today. A Companion to Roman Imperialism, written by a distinguished body of scholars, explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Rome’s rise to empire to reveal the impact which this had on her subject peoples and on the Romans themselves. The Companion analyses how Rome’s internal affairs and international relations reacted on each other, sometimes with violent results, why some lands were annexed but others ignored or given up, and the ways in which Rome’s population and power élite evolved as former subjects, east and west, themselves became Romans and made their powerful contributions to Roman history and culture. Contributors are Eric Adler, Richard Alston, Lea Beness, Paul Burton, Brian Campbell, Arthur Eckstein, Peter Edwell, Tom Hillard, Richard Hingley, Benjamin Isaac, José Luis López Castro, J. Majbom Madsen, Susan Mattern, Sophie Mills, David Potter, Jonathan Prag, Steven Rutledge, Maurice Sartre, John Serrati, Tom Stevenson, Martin Stone, and James Thorne.

Book Studies of Roman Imperialism

Download or read book Studies of Roman Imperialism written by William Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book studies of roman imperialism

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  • Author : Humphry Ward
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book studies of roman imperialism written by Humphry Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Imperialism

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  • Author : Craige B. Champion
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 2003-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780631231196
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Roman Imperialism written by Craige B. Champion and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging reader on Roman imperialism brings together ancient documents in translation and a selection of the best recent scholarly essays, in order to introduce students to the major problems and controversies in studying this central aspect of Roman history. A broad-ranging reader on Roman imperialism, combining ancient documents in translation and a selection of the best recent scholarship on the subject. Introduces students to the major problems and controversies in the study of Roman imperialism. Examines diverse aspects of Roman imperialism, from the Romans’ motivations in acquiring an empire and their ideological justifications for imperial domination, to the complex political, economic, and cultural interactions between the Romans, their allies, and the subjected peoples. An introduction surveys modern work on Roman imperialism and provides the context of recent theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of empires in general. Includes notes with suggestions for further reading.

Book Studies of Roman Imperialism

Download or read book Studies of Roman Imperialism written by William T. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Imperialism

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  • Author : Andrew Erskine
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-28
  • ISBN : 074862905X
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Roman Imperialism written by Andrew Erskine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of Rome from a small central Italian city-state into the sole Mediterranean superpower has long proved fascinating and controversial. At its height the Roman Empire extended from Britain in the North to Libya in the South and from Spain in the West to Syria in the East. It has impressed not only by its extent but also by its longevity. Andrew Erskine examines the course and nature of Roman expansion, focusing on explanations, ancient and modern, the impact of Roman rule on the subject and the effect of empire on the imperial power. All these topics have created a tremendous amount of discussion among scholars, not least because the study of Roman imperialism has always been informed by contemporary perceptions of international power relations. The book is divided into two halves. Part I treats some of the main issues in modern debates about Roman imperialism, while Part II offers a selection of the most important source material allowing readers to enter these debates themselves

Book War and Imperialism in Republican Rome  327 70 B C

Download or read book War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327 70 B C written by William Vernon Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How important were the material gains of military success--land, slaves, and other riches--commonly supposed to have been merely an incidental result? What value is there in the claim of the contemporary historian Polybius that the Romans were driven by a greater and greater ambition to expand their empire? The author answers these questions within an analytic framework, and comes to an interpretation of Roman imperialism that differs sharply from the conventional ones.

Book The Holy Roman Empire  Reconsidered

Download or read book The Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered written by Jason Philip Coy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their research reveals the continual importance of the Empire as a stage (and audience) for symbolic performance and communication; as a well utilized problem-solving and conflict-resolving supra-governmental institution; and as an imagined political, religious, and cultural "world" for contemporaries. This volume by leading scholars offers a dramatic reappraisal of politics, religion, and culture and also represents a major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period.

Book The Twin Towns of Zeugma on the Euphrates

Download or read book The Twin Towns of Zeugma on the Euphrates written by D. L. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Download or read book The Early Roman Expansion into Italy written by Nicola Terrenato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Book Studies of Roman Imperialism  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Studies of Roman Imperialism Classic Reprint written by W. T. Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Roman Imperialism The aim of this book is to preserve the fragment of Roman history of the early imperial period which W. T. Arnold left behind him. The original scheme of the work, and the great change which it afterwards underwent have been described on pp. Xxxvi. - xxxvii. Of his sister's memoir. It is enough to record here that what is now published represents but a small proportion of what Arnold intended to write. The fragment has been edited by Mr. Edward Fiddes, who is responsible for the introduction to the history, the notes in square brackets, the appendices, and the bibliography. His share in all these is more fully in dicated by him on pages 1 - 7. The memoir of Arnold is written by his sister Mrs. Humphry Ward, and by Mr. O. E. Montague, for many years his colleague on the stafi of the Manchester Guardian. Mrs. Ward has written the portions which deal with her brother's early life and last years. Mr. Montague has contributed the account of Arnold's Manchester life and of his activity as a journalist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Studies of Roman Imperialism

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  • Author : William Thomas Arnold
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2018-02-14
  • ISBN : 9781377386003
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Studies of Roman Imperialism written by William Thomas Arnold and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Resilience of the Roman Empire

Download or read book The Resilience of the Roman Empire written by Dimitri Van Limbergen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resilience ofthe Roman Empire discusses therelationship between population and regional development in the Roman worldfrom the perspective of archaeology. By adapting a comparative approach, thefocus of the volume lies on exploring the various ways in which regionalcommunities actively responded to population growth or decline in order to keepgoing on the land available to them. The starting point of the theoreticalframework for the case studies is the agricultural intensification modelsdeveloped by Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup. In order to advance the debateon the validity of these models for identifying the societal and economicpathways of the Roman world, the contributors incorporate the concepts ofresilience and diversity into their approach, and shift attention from thelongue-durée to how people managed to sustain themselves over shorter periodsof time. The aim of the volume is not to discard the theories of Malthus andBoserup, but rather to deconstruct overly strict Malthusian or Boserupianscenarios, and as such introduce novel and more layered ways of thinking byexploring resilience and variability in human responses to populationgrowth/decline in the Roman world.

Book Studies of Roman Imperialism

Download or read book Studies of Roman Imperialism written by W. T. Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Roman Imperialism The aim of this book is to preserve the fragment of Roman history of the early imperial period which W. T. Arnold left behind him. The original scheme of the work, and the great change which it afterwards underwent have been described on pp. xxxvi. - xxxvii. of his sister's memoir. It is enough to record here that what is now published represents but a small proportion of what Arnold intended to write. The fragment has been edited by Mr. Edward Fiddes, who is responsible for the introduction to the history, the notes in square brackets, the appendices, and the bibliography. His share in all these is more fully indicated by him on pages 1 - 7. The memoir of Arnold is written by his sister Mrs. Humphry Ward, and by Mr. C. E. Montague, for many years his colleague on the staff of the Manchester Guardian. Mrs. Ward has written the portions which deal with her brother's early life and last years. Mr. Montague has contributed the account of Arnold's Manchester life and of his activity as a journalist. The indexes have been compiled by Miss Marjorie Cooper, B.A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Gendering Roman Imperialism

Download or read book Gendering Roman Imperialism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman imperialism has historically been viewed as displays of masculine power and agency. This volume explores the intersection of imperialism and gender to deepen our understanding of systems of power to provide a gendered history of Roman imperialism.