| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5
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Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 5.
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| Note |
Selected, revised versions of papers from a series of seminars sponsored by the Classics Departments of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, 1988-1990. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Roman conquest of Italy / Stephen Oakley -- Fear, greed and glory : the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic / John Rich -- Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked cities / Adam Ziolkowski -- Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic / John Patterson -- Roman poetry and anti-militarism / Duncan Cloud -- The end of Roman imperial expansion / Tim Cornell -- Roman peace / Greg Woolf -- Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication / David Braund -- War and diplomacy : Rome and Parthia, 31 BC-AD 235 / Brian Campbell -- Philosophers' attitudes to warfare under the principate / Harry Sidebottom -- The end of the Roman army in the western empire / Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Landlords and warlords in the later Roman Empire / Dick Whittaker. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Rome -- History.
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Rome -- History, Military.
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Rome (Empire) |
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History, Military. |
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Sociology, Military -- Rome -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
War History |
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Roman Empire |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Military history.
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| Added Author |
Rich, John, 1944-
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Shipley, Graham.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: War and society in the Roman world. London ; New York : Routledge, 1993 0415066441 (DLC) 92036698 (OCoLC)26764453 |
| ISBN |
0203075544 (electronic book) |
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9780203075548 (electronic book) |
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9780415066440 |
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0415066441 |
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0415121671 (paperback) |
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