War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327-70 B. C.

Name: War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327-70 B. C.
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ISBN: 9780198148661

ISBN-10: 0198148666

ISBN-13: 9780198148661

Edition: 1979

Authors: William V. Harris

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Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How important were the material gains of military success--land, slaves, and other riches--commonly supposed to have been merely an incidental result? What value is there in the claim of the contemporary historian Polybius that the Romans were driven by a greater and greater ambition to expand their empire? The author answers these questions within an analytic framework, and comes to an interpretation of Roman imperialism that differs sharply…

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List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100

William V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean.



Roman attitudes towards war


Economic motives for war and expansion


Expansion as a Roman aim


Annexation


Imperialism and Self-Defence


Additional Notes