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001 2001050055
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005 20050607113119.0
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050 00 $aDA145$b.R735 2002
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245 04 $aThe Roman era :$bthe British Isles, 55 BC-AD 410 /$cedited by Peter Salway.
260 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2002.
300 $axix, 286 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
440 4 $aThe short Oxford history of the British Isles
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-240) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1 The transformation of Britain: from 55 BC to AD 61 11 -- T W. Potter -- The complex societies of the prehistoric British Isles 12 -- Julius Caesar 13 -- Rome's impact on Britain before the Claudian Conquest 15 -- Rome's intentions towards Britain 24 -- The Claudian invasion 25 -- Establishment of military control 28 -- Caratacus and Cartimandua 30 -- Neronian Britain 32 -- Boudicca 33 -- 2 A second start: from the defeat of Boudicca -- to the third century 39 -- Michael Fulford -- The sources 40 -- After Boudicca 41 -- The Flavian advance 45 -- Withdrawal from Scotland 45 -- Urban development 47 -- Infrastructure and the economy 53 -- Military consolidation 56 -- Economic integration 58 -- Civic projects and their completion 61 -- Smaller towns and villages 63 -- The wealth of the province 64 -- Antonine Scotland 65 -- Mutiny, civil war, and their aftermath 68 -- Town defences and their context 69 -- Peace and retrenchment 69 -- Urban change 71 -- Military developments on the coasts of the South and East 72 -- The end of the third century 73 -- 3 The fourth century and beyond 75 -- P J. Casey -- Fourth-century Britain 76 -- The Tetrarchy 78 -- Regionalism 80 -- The army 81 -- Constantinian Britain 82 -- Civil war and its aftermath 85 -- The 'Barbarian Conspiracy' 87 -- Magnus Maximus 89 -- Britain at the end of the fourth century 92 -- Religion 94 -- The end of Roman rule 96 -- 4 Culture and social relations in the Roman province 107 -- Janet Huskinson -- Perceptions of Roman Britain 108 -- Sources log09 -- Turning Britain into 'the form of a province' 1l -- Cultural change: acceptance and resistance 116 -- Communities on the northern frontier 117 -- Cultural values 125 -- Fourth-century villas 127 -- Mosaics 129 -- Wall-painting and sculpture 136 -- Conclusion 137 -- 5 The human impact on the landscape: agriculture, -- settlement, industry, infrastructure 141 -- Richard Hingley and David Miles -- The landscape 142 -- The nature of environmental evidence 147 -- Woodland 148 -- Alluvium and colluvium 148 -- Arable cultivation 149 -- Crops 150 -- The population: how many people lived in Roman Britain? 152 -- The agricultural landscape 155 -- Settlement patterns and settlement types 156 -- Industry and the landscape 164 -- The sacred landscape 167 -- The end of the Roman interlude 169 -- 6 The edge of the world: the imperial frontier and beyond 173 -- David J. Breeze -- Ancient geography 174 -- The location of the frontier 175 -- The causes of war 176 -- The nature of the frontier 178 -- Frontier regulations 179 -- Treaties 180 -- The army 183 -- Supplies 185 -- The native people and their settlements 187 -- The impact of Rome 189 -- Religion 193 -- Artefacts beyond the frontier 194 -- Rome as a neighbour 196 -- The reason for the location of the frontier 198 -- Conclusion 199 -- Conclusion 203 -- Peter Salway -- Britain and Rome 203 -- The Conquest and 'Romanization' 205 -- Some consequences of absorption into the empire 207 -- Roman views of Britain and the Britons 208 -- The army 212 -- The emperor in person 213 -- Rules, documents, and literacy 218 -- Slave and free 221 -- Decision-making and its location 223 -- Later Roman Britain 224 -- The Church 226 -- Economic change 229 -- The 'end' of Roman Britain 231 -- Further reading 237 -- Chronology 241 -- List of Roman Emperors 249 -- Maps 253 -- Index 269.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yRoman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xAntiquities, Roman.
650 0 $aRomans$zGreat Britain.
700 1 $aSalway, Peter.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001050055.html