1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008223710403321

Autore

Guichet, Albert

Titolo

Les Etats-Unis (United States America) : Notes sur l'organisation scientifique, les Facultés de Médecine, les Hopitaux, la prostitution, la syphilis, l'hygiène, etc. / par A. Guichet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Delahaye, 1877

Descrizione fisica

175 p. ; 20 cm

Locazione

ILFGE

Collocazione

K-01-014

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019572003321

Titolo

The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011

ISBN

9786613826602

9781283514156

128351415X

9781444390209

1444390201

9781444390186

144439018X

9781444390193

1444390198

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

Ancient World: Comparative Histories ; ; v.4

Altri autori (Persone)

ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->

RaaflaubKurt A

Disciplina

937.06

937/.06

Soggetti

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Expansion and Transformation; 2 From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; 4 Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; Part II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity; 5 The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the RomanEmpire

6 The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity7 Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Part III Destinies of the Roman Legacy; 8 The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; 9 The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; 10 The First Islamic Empire; Part IV Comparative Perspectives; 11 From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; 12 China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; 13 The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran

14 The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of RomePart V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections; 15 The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; 16 Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; General Index; Index of Sources (selective)

Sommario/riassunto

Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome's significance within comparative studies.Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire's role and achievementFeatures contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the worldExplores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to a