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Lädt ... Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empirevon W. V. Harris
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Comprehensive modern accounts of the longue durée of Roman imperialism are few and far between (though note Greg Woolf’s Rome: An Empire’s Story, BMCR 2014.02.44). Roman Power provides a synthetic account of the growth and decline of Roman power from its early years as a middling Italian city-state in 400 BCE to the 7th-century CE Islamic invasions of the Byzantine East. Harris is concerned not only with the allocation of military or political force on external enemies, but with myriad forms of power—economic, legal, social, and the power of gender and ideas. The work is comparative in two respects, first by comparing the centuries of Roman expansion with those of its fall, and second by considering how the “soft” forms of power at work in the interior of the empire mentioned above affected and were affected by the external, “hard” application of imperial-military power. William Harris has written a bold and brisk overview of Roman history and imperialism, which spans from 400 BC to the Arab conquest in the seventh century AD (around AD 641). Painting with broad brushstrokes, Harris engages the reader in a lively dialogue about what was really at issue in power politics across a thousand year span. What was Roman power? How did it grow? How did it fail? How did internal political power relations shape and react to overseas expansion over time? Aimed at a general audience of students and anybody interested in ancient history, this book offers a synthesis of issues and scholarly approaches, while highlighting Harris' own considerable contributions to the field. No modern work (in English) has attempted such a wide range or sharp analysis within so broad a framework. This book will be profitable for many kinds of readers and deserves to be read through for its general comparisons, rather than simply being mined for Harris' treatment of individual issues.
The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian W. V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political power, social power, gender power and economic power). Effectively integrating analysis with a compelling narrative, he traces this linkage between the external and the internal through three very long periods, and part of the originality of the book is that it almost uniquely considers both the gradual rise of the Roman Empire and its demise as an empire in the fifth and seventh centuries AD. Professor Harris contends that comparing the Romans of these diverse periods sharply illuminates both the growth and the shrinkage of Roman power as well as the Empire's extraordinary durability. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)937History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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