University of California Press, Date: 1987-06-12. Paperback. Very Good. 1987. University of California Press ISBN 0520060679 9780520060678 [US]

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University of California Press, Date: 1987-06-12. Paperback. Good. 1987. University of California Press ISBN 0520060679 9780520060678 [US]

ISBN10: 0520060679, ISBN13: 9780520060678, [publisher: University of California Press June 1987] Softcover Book in Good condition. Shelf wear to cover. No marks noted in text. Binding sound.
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ISBN10: 0520060679, ISBN13: 9780520060678, [publisher: University of California Press] Softcover 1987. Classical studies. University of California Press. Very good paperback but with sun fading to green covers along spine and edges 231p.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]

ISBN10: 0520060679, ISBN13: 9780520060678, [publisher: California (Berkeley/Los Angeles): University of California Press] Softcover 231 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - in good conditions - Content: During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth, or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? Why did Roman governments freeze the official religion while allowing the diffusion of alien, especially oriental, cults? Are we to see in their attitude to Christianity a policy of toleration — or simply confusion and a failure of nerve? These are some of the many questions posed in this book, which offers the first overall account of the society, economy and culture of the Roman empire. Addressed to non-specialist readers no less than to scholars, it breaks with the traditional historian's preoccupation with narrative and politics. As an integrated study of the life and outlook of the ordinary inhabitants of the Roman world, it deepens our understanding of the underlying factors in this important formative period of world history. Peter ...