TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldsworthy,Adrian Keith
TI  - Pax Romana: war, peace, and conquest in the Roman world 
SN  - 9780300178821 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
AV  - DG276 .G65 2016
U1  - 937/.07 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and index; Introduction. A glory greater than war / The Pax Romana -- Part one. Republic. The rise of Rome -- War -- Friends and rivals -- Traders and settlers -- 'How much did you make?'- Government -- Provincials and Kings -- Part two. Principate. Emperors -- Rebellion -- Resistance, rioting and robbery -- Imperial governors -- Life under Roman rule -- The army and the frontiers -- Garrisons and raids -- Beyond the Pax Romana -- Conclusion. Peace and war
N2  - Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates to the Atlantic coast. Ruthless, Romans won peace not through coexistence but through dominance; millions died and were enslaved during the creation of their empire. Pax Romana examines how the Romans came to control so much of the world and asks whether traditionally favorable images of the Roman peace are true. Goldsworthy vividly recounts the rebellions of the conquered, examining why they broke out, why most failed, and how they became exceedingly rare. He reveals that hostility was just one reaction to the arrival of Rome and that from the outset, conquered peoples collaborated, formed alliances, and joined invaders, causing resistance movements to fade away
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