part of a general upsurge in interest in the wake of the film
Gladiator
and the television
series
Rome
; most of them are perfectly serviceable, but especially recommended is
N. Faulkner,
Rome: empire of the eagles, 753 BC – AD 476
(London: Longman,
2008), for its explicitly left-wing perspective and avoidance of excessive glorification
of military conquest. Analytical accounts – with the exception of C. Kelly’s brisk
and highly readable
The Roman Empire: a very short introduction
(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006) – tend to follow the traditional political division between
Republic and Principate, rather than considering Rome as a whole. On the earlier
period, M. Beard & M. Crawford,
Rome in the Late Republic
(2nd edn) (London:
Duckworth, 2000) remains a classic, even now that most of its insights have been
absorbed into the mainstream of historical thought. Two recent collections draw
together current ideas and debates: H. Flower (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to
the Roman Republic
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) and the more
compendious
Companion to the Roman Republic
, edited by N. Rosenstein & R.
Morstein-Marx (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). On the Principate, P. Garnsey & R.
Saller,
The Roman Empire: economy, society, culture
(London: Duckworth, 1987)
is still well worth reading, along with R. Alston,
Aspects of Roman History, AD
14–117
(London & New York: Routledge, 1998).
ImpErIalIsm and ImpErIal rulE
The most detailed study of Roman imperialism remains W.V. Harris,
War and
Imperialism in Republican Rome 327–70 BC
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1979). C. Champion (ed.),
Roman Imperialism: readings and sources
(Oxford
& Malden: Blackwell, 2004) offers an invaluable mixture of important scholarly
articles, extracts from books and ancient sources. A. Lintott,
Imperium Romanum:
politics and administration
(London & New York: Routledge, 1993) provides a
detailed survey of the administrative structures of the Roman empire. S.E. Alcock
et al. (eds),
Empires: perspectives from archaeology and history
(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001) includes a range of stimulating articles about
different aspects of different pre-industrial empires. Important works on individual
provinces and their development under Roman rule, especially drawing on archaeo-
logical evidence, are S.E. Alcock,
Graecia Capta: the landscapes of Roman Greece
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); M. Millett,
The Romanization of
Britain: an essay in archaeological interpretation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990); G. Woolf,
Becoming Roman: the origins of provincial civilization in
Gaul
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 1998); D.J. Mattingly,
An Imperial
Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC – AD 409
(London: Penguin, 2007).
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Economy
There is, unfortunately, no handy introduction to the nature and workings of the
Roman economy; the relevant sections in Garnsey & Saller,
The Roman Empire
,
remain the clearest and most accessible summary, while Chapter 2 in N. Morley,
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History
(London & New York: Routledge,
2004) explores the underlying issues in the debate. M.I. Finley,
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