Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History (Hardback)
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Short Description for Ancient Rome This volume is a short yet comprehensive political and military history of ancient Rome.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 February 2005
- Format: Hardback 460 pages
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- Categories: Politics & Government | General & World History | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780521809184 ISBN 10: 0521809185
- Sales rank: 935,381
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Full description for Ancient Rome
A short and comprehensive political and military history of ancient Rome, from the origins of the city in the Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476 AD. Outlining Rome's absorption of the Italian peninsula, Christopher Mackay explains how this conquest provided the Romans with the man power that allowed them to conquer the Mediterranean in a mere half-century. Mackay details how the military responsibilities of empire undermined the political institutions of the Republic and how the Imperial adoption of Christianity as the state religion, as well as the military and economic pressures of the third and fourth centuries, eventually led to the downfall of the western empire through invasion. Illustrated with the relevant art works from Rome's long history, this volume will serve as a timely and up to date overview of one of the most extraordinary civilizations of human history.
