Empire of Ancient Rome (Great Empires of the Past (Library))

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Explore the Home Gift Guide. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Each attractive title features full-color photographs and maps, "Connections" boxes that highlight the effects of the empire's innovations and institutions on today's world, and "In Their Own Words" sidebars that emphasize primary source documents. A chronology, glossary, bibliography, up-to-date further resources, and a comprehensive index complete these volumes, which are perfect for students conducting research or readers simply interested in these empires from the past.

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Great Empires of the Past Format: Great Empires of the Past Imprint: Reviews and Awards " Summary Now in full color! Empire of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition. Woolf has written what will surely establish itself as the definitive introduction to his subject. An Empire's Story is a terrific piece of work. It covers a vast chronological sweep briskly, from a wide and revealing variety of perspectives, and with a dazzling intellectual verve.

The reader repeatedly encounters shrewd and often unexpected insights all along the way. Greg Woolf has given us a real tour de force of a book. An Empire's Story, a remarkable work of synthesis that describes the rise, flourishing and decline of the Roman Empire Not the least merit of Mr.

Woolf's chronicle is its depiction of how misleading this division can be His new account of Rome's imperial history is hence something of an event An Empire's Story on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle?

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The title of this book may lead one to expect a fairly comprehensive and chronological history of the Roman Empire. The short timelines denoting important dates from the early days of the small city on the Tiber to the overrunning of Western provinces by the Arabs in the early 8th century that precede most of the chapters reinforce that idea.

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But that's not the case, here--not even close. And I think we may be better for it.

Rather than take on such a momentous task, one clearly not amenable to a page volume, Professor Woolf takes another route. Each of the main chapters focuses on a topic that is more or less associated with the timeline for that chapter, and then provides an essay about that subject matter. The traditional approach of a 'event A leads to event B', gives way to some thoughtful and well-written writing about that topic, with an eye toward exploring it not just in the context of associated dates for the chapter, but for the history of the Empire as a whole.

Indeed, I found his several chapters devoted to how we think about Rome and the place it holds in our general impression of history to be among the book's best. Woolf knows his stuff, and thankfully, is also able to communicate it in an engaging manner. Anyone interested in more details on, say, the Roman military system, the economics of the Empire, or the personal stories of any of the colorful individuals who ran Rome will need to look elsewhere. Wolfe aids in that with an extensive bibliography and very useful 'for further reading' suggestions at the conclusion of each chapter. I can't say I would recommend this book to someone just starting their exploration of ancient Rome.

While certainly accessible, I think the book rewards those who come to it with some grounding in the general course of Roman history. Woolf's insights are perhaps best appreciated by those who already have a basic understanding of what's going on. Myself, I have long had an interest in ancient history and read a fair amount about subject. I found this volume both fascinating and a nice addition to my library on ancient Rome.

Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I enjoyed Greg Woolf's "Rome: An Empire's Story", and I feel that I learned quite a bit. Woolf's book is strongest in the questions it poses: Also interesting are the questions of how Romans themselves answered this question, as well as outsiders, particularly Greeks. Earlier chapters alluded to this critical juncture in Rome's history, and the concluding passages suggested that, although Rome largely recovered and the Western empire continued for another two centuries, things were never the same afterwards. But the chapter itself is frustratingly vague; apparently, there was an unprecedented number of barbarian invasions, and these invasions managed first to overrun the heavily defended frontiers and next to run amok in the soft inner territories.