Neil Faulkner

Rome (eBook, ePUB)

Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC - AD 476

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved.

Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people slaves, serfs and poor peasants were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317905233
• Artikelnr.: 39912467

Autorenporträt

Neil Faulkner is a freelance archaeologist and historian. He works as a writer, lecturer, excavator, and occasional broadcaster. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, he is now a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Editor of Military History Monthly, and a Lecturer for NADFAS. He co-directs the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (in Norfolk), the Great Arab Revolt Project (in Jordan), and the Great War Archaeology Group (a field unit specialising in First World War archaeology).

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and plates Acknowledgements Introduction Note on ancient monetary values Maps Prologue 1. The making of an imperial city
state, c 750
367 BC 2. The rise of a superpower, 343
146 BC 3. The Roman revolution, 133
30 BC 4. The Pax Romana, 30 BC
AD161 5. The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire Timeline References Bibliographical notes Index and glossary