Kurt A. (Hrsg.) Raaflaub

The Roman Empire in Context

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

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A challengingly unfamiliar examination of the Roman Empire in context - forwards, backwards, sideways and through the looking glass - by an intriguing assemblage of scholars. A remarkable and thought-provoking collection. The Roman Empire in Context is a stimulating collection of essays of comparative history, ranging widely over time and space and informed conceptually by an engagement with theoretical literature on government and Empire. This is a wide ranging volume that achieves a genuinely comparative perspective. The editors have been uniquely successful in bringing together papers that complement each other across time and space. This… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Arnason, Johann P. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4443-9020-9
EAN: 9781444390209
Produktnummer: 13877903
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'641 KB

Über den Autor

Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and Visiting Professor at the Charles University in Prague. His recent publications include Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-ed., 2005); Eurasian Transformations, 10th to 13th Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (co-ed., 2005), and Domains and Divisions of European History (co-ed., 2010) Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University, where he was also Director of the Program in Ancient Studies. Recent publications include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004, winner of the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize), War and Peace in the Ancient World (ed., 2007); Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (co-author, 2007); A Companion to Archaic Greece (co-ed., 2009); and Epic and History (co-ed., 2010).