Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World

Emma Dench (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

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Cambridge University Press
09 August 2018

History; General & world history; Classical history & classical civilisation; Social & cultural history

Series: Key Themes in Ancient History

This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the much longer history of imperial rule within which the Roman Empire emerged. Steering a course between overemphasis on resistance and overemphasis on consensus, it highlights the political, social, religious and cultural consequences of an imperial system within which functions of state were substantially delegated to, or more often simply assumed by, local agencies and institutions. The book is accessible and of value to a wide range of undergraduate and graduate students as well as of interest to all scholars concerned with the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

By: Emma Dench (Harvard University Massachusetts)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780521009010
ISBN 10: 0521009014
Series: Key Themes in Ancient History
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 09 August 2018
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Towards a Roman dialect of empire; 2. Territory; 3. Wealth and society; 4. Force and violence; 5. Time; Epilogue: becoming Roman?

Emma Dench is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics at Harvard University. Her publications include Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the age of Hadrian (2005) and From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines (1995), as well as numerous articles and chapters on ethnicity, race, empire, and historiography in the ancient world.