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ROME AND ITS FRONTIERS:

THE DYNAMICS OF EMPIRE

Can Roman attitudes to subject and frontier peoples teach us anything

about the way in which they ran their empire?

Rome and its Frontiers: The Dynamics of Empire is a collection of ten

important essays by C.R. Whittaker, several of them published here for the

first time, engaging with contemporary debates and controversies

surrounding the Roman frontiers and the concept of empire. Roman rela-

tions with their neighbours and those they dominated represent one of the

keys to understanding the nature of Roman rule. Each essay presents a

different aspect of frontier scholarship, with chapters covering the barbarian

invasions in the later Roman Empire, the social and sexual life of soliders on

the frontiers, the practicalities of supplying the army at frontier settlements

and the wider issues of migration, geography and identity. Traditional theo-

ries of Roman frontiers have interacted with experience of other frontiers in

history to change the very idea of what is meant by a frontier.

These papers, by a leading authority on the Roman frontiers, range

geographically from Britain and Europe to Africa, India and the Far East.

Each of them sheds new light on the significance of the frontiers, and adds

to our understanding of the way that the Romans perceived the world

within and beyond the boundaries.

C.R. Whittaker is a fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, and a former

University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Cambridge.

ROME AND ITS

THE DYNAMICS OF

EMPIRE

C.R. Whittaker

FRONTIERS:

First published 2004

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

ISBN 0-203-47631-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-33811-1 (Adobe eReader Format)

(Print Edition)

ISBN 0–415–31200–0

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