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The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire From the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD

By John Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521815010, 9780521815017
LCC
DG271 .R5 2008
Open Library ID
OL22658126M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
929 kB (951681 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
232\232
Topic
History
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate the whole of the Mediterranean basin, most of modern Europe and the lands of Asia Minor and the Middle East, has often been told. It has provided the model for European empires from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria and beyond, and is still the basis of comparison for investigators of modern imperialisms. By an exhaustive investigation of the changing meanings of certain key words and their use in the substantial remains of Roman writings and in the structures of Roman political life, this book seeks to discover what the Romans themselves thought about their imperial power in the centuries in which they conquered the known world and formed the empire of the first and second centuries AD.

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