Faulkner Rome

Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC – AD 476
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-90524-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 378 Seiten

The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. However, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faulkner, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology Introduction 1. The Rise of a Superpower, c.650-275 BC 2. The Struggle for World Supremacy, c. 275-146 BC 3. The Warlords Divided, c.146-30 BC 4. The Empire at Bay, c.30 BC-AD138 5. The Empire Under Siege, c.AD138-284 6. The Late Roman Counter-Revolution, c. AD284-395 7. The Fall of the Roman Empire, c. AD395-565 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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).