05509cam a2200805Ia 4500 ocn700706067 OCoLC 20171119103511.0 m o d cr |n|---||||| 110205s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781444390209 (electronic bk.) 1444390201 (electronic bk.) 9781444390186 (electronic bk.) 144439018X (electronic bk.) 128351415X 9781283514156 9781444390193 (electronic bk.) 1444390198 (electronic bk.) 9780470655573 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0470655577 (hardcover ; alk. paper) AU@ 000047158712 AU@ 000055218977 CHNEW 000721265 DEBBG BV040876064 DEBBG BV041910986 HEBIS 251707121 NLGGC 332971686 NLGGC 389612626 NZ1 15916437 (OCoLC)700706067 (OCoLC)707079559 (OCoLC)711782167 (OCoLC)716215458 (OCoLC)778020003 (OCoLC)805507977 (OCoLC)817800203 10.1002/9781444390186 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com MERUC eng pn MERUC EBLCP YDXCP OCLCQ MHW CFI NTE WAU N$T E7B OSU REDDC OCLCQ UIU DG1 CDX OCLCO N$T OCLCF OCLCA OCLCQ IDEBK DEBBG OCLCQ COO NLGGC N$T OCLCQ DG1 e------ ff----- aw----- MAIN DG77 .R6712 2011eb HIS 002020 bisacsh 937.06 15.52 bcl The Roman Empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The ancient world : comparative histories Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction / Johann P. Arnason -- pt. I Expansion and Transformation -- 2. From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- 3. The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance / Egon Flaig -- 4. Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon / J.E. Lendon -- pt. II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity -- 5. The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire / Adam Ziolkowski -- 6. The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity / Guy G Stroumsa -- 7. Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium / Garth Fowden -- pt. III Destinies of the Roman Legacy -- 8. The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West / Matthias Becher -- 9. The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE / John Haldon -- 10. The First Islamic Empire / Chase F. Robinson -- pt. IV Comparative Perspectives -- 11. From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria / Mario Liverani -- 12. China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government / Michael Loewe -- 13. The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran / Scott McDonough -- 14. The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of Rome / Peter Fibiger Bang -- pt. V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections -- 15. The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization / Johann P. Arnason -- 16. Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions / Peter Wagner. Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome's significance within comparative studies.: Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement; Features contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the world; Explores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to ancient Rome. Print version record. Comparative civilization. History. HISTORY Ancient. bisacsh HISTORY Ancient Rome. bisacsh Civilization. fast (OCoLC)fst00862898 Comparative civilization. fast (OCoLC)fst00871321 Cultuurgeschiedenis. gtt (NL-LeOCL)078478227 Rome Civilization. Rome History. Rome (Empire) fast (OCoLC)fst01204885 Romeinse rijk. gtt (NL-LeOCL)078652960 Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Árnason, Jóhann Páll, 1940- Raaflaub, Kurt A. Print version: Roman Empire in context. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 9780470655573 (DLC) 2010021913 (OCoLC)639940074 Ancient world--comparative histories. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444390186 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 204889 204889