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Summary:

"A history of Rome from earliest times to the end of the Western Empire"--Cover.

Table of Contents:

• Archaic Italy and the origins of Rome
• Republican Rome and the conquest of Italy
• The beginnings of a Mediterranean empire
• Italy and empire
• Italy threatened, enfranchised, divided
• The domination or Sulla and its legacy
• End of the republic : Caesar's dictatorship
• Augustus and the transformation of the Roman world
• The early principate (A.D. 14-69) : the Julio-Claudians, the civil war of 68-69, and life in the early empire
• Institutionalization of the principate : military expansion and its limits, the empire and the provinces (69-138)
• Italy and the provinces : civil and military affairs (138-235)
• The third-century crisis and the Tetrarchic restabilization
• The rise of Christianity and the growth of the barbarian threat (324-395)
• The final years of the Western empire and Rome's revival in the East
• Timeline
• Glossary
• Principal ancient authors
• Gazetteer.

Author/Creator:

Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro , author

Contributors:

Gargola, Daniel J. , author

Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 1965- , author

Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Rome — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 586 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

DG209 .B58 2012

ISBNs:

9780199730575 (acid-free paper)
0199730571 (acid-free paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40020742263

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011036879

OCLC Numbers:

752471853