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Rome - An Empire's Story (Paperback)
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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's rulers 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 apparently indestructible.
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