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EBOOK Rome:An Empire's Story
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191626869
EAN: 7554C119EB
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Stron: 384
Data wydania: 2012
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The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today the Roman empire        offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of its monuments and        literature can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa - and        sometimes even further afield.This is the story of how this mammoth empire was        created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers        and subjects - a story spanning a millennium and a half. Chapters that tell the        story of the unfolding of Rome's empire alternate with discussions based on the most        recent evidence into the conditions that made the Roman imperial achievement        possible and also so durable, covering topics as diverse as ecology, slavery, and        the cult paid to gods and men.Rome was not the only ancient empire. Comparison with        other imperial projects helps us see what it was that was so distinctive about        ancient Rome. Ancient Rome has also often been an explicit model for other        imperialisms. Rome, An Empire's Story shows quite how different Roman imperialism        was from modern imitations. The story that emerges outlines the advantages of Rome        had over its neighbours at different periods - some planned, some quite accidental -        and the stages by which Rome'srulers successively had to change the way they ruled        to cope with the problems of growth.As Greg Woolf demonstrates, nobody ever planned        to create a state that would last more than a millennium and a half, yet the short        term politics of alliances between successively wider groups created a structure of        extraordinary stability. Rome's Empire was able, in the end, to survive barbarian        migrations, economic collapse and even the conflicts between a series of world        religions that had grown up within it, in the process generating an imagery and a        myth of empire that is apparentlyindestructible.

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