Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780199775293, 019977529X, 019977529X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The whole story -- Empires of the mind -- Rulers of Italy -- Imperial ecology -- Mediterranean hegemony -- Slavery and empire -- Crisis -- At heaven's command? -- The generals -- The enjoyment of empire -- Emperors -- Resourcing empire -- War -- Imperial identities -- Recovery and collapse -- A Christian empire -- Things fall apart -- The Roman past and the Roman future