A brief history of the Romans

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Full Title:: A brief history of the Romans / Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Noel Lenski, Richard J.A. Talbert
Uniform Title:: Brief history of ancient Rome

Additional Author/Creators:: Gargola, Daniel J., author
Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 1965-, author
Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-, author

Table of Contents:: Archaic Italy and the Origins of Rome -- Republican Rome and the Conquest of Italy -- The Beginnings of a Mediterranean Empire -- Italy and Empire -- Italy Threatened, Enfranchised, Divided -- The Domination of Sulla and Its Legacy -- End of the Republic: Caesar's Dictatorship -- Augustus and the Transformation of the Roman World -- The Early Principate (A.D. 14-69): The Julio-Claudians, the Civil War of 68-69, and Life in the Early Empire -- Military Expansion and Its Limits: The Empire and the Provinces (69-138) -- Italy and the Provinces: Civil and Military Affairs (138-235) -- The Third-Century Crisis and the Tetrarchic Restabilization -- The Rise of Christianity and the Growth of the Barbarian Threat (324-395) -- The Final Years of the Western Empire and Rome's Revival in the East.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xxv, 358 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:: Revised edition of: A brief history of ancient Rome. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.