Rome: Strategy of Empire is the first book in nearly five decades to explore Roman strategic thinking and execution. Combining both thematic chapters with a narrative history of the Roman Empire, this work explores how the Empire survived for over five hundred years despite being challenged by ruthl...

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1. Verfasser:	Lacey, James 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Oxford Academic
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 27 v. Chr.-476 Rome / Army Rome / Military life Römisches Reich
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Zusammenfassung:	Rome: Strategy of Empire is the first book in nearly five decades to explore Roman strategic thinking and execution. Combining both thematic chapters with a narrative history of the Roman Empire, this work explores how the Empire survived for over five hundred years despite being challenged by ruthless and determined enemies on every front. Rome: Strategy of Empire dispels many of the myths and errors that have crept up in Roman studies since the 1970s, including the most widespread and pernicious of them all: that the Romans were incapable of executing on a strategic level or even of thinking in strategic terms. The Roman Empire was a military autocracy built and maintained on the backs of the legions and this work explores Rome's military power and its use in detail. In addition, it explains how Rome sustained its power through diplomacy, superior administration, and most crucially, never (until the end of the Empire) losing sight of the crucial role economics plays as a foundation for military power. Rome: Strategy of Empire not only tells the reader what happened; it explains why it happened
Beschreibung:	Includes Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: The Empire's Timeline - Introduction: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Part IThemes and Topics - 1. ould the Romans Do Strategy? - 2. ow Dangerous Were the Barbarians? - 3. aying for a Strategy: Funding the Republic - 4. The Core of Roman Strategy - 5. he Infrastructure of Empire - 6. n Army for Empire - 7. oman Naval Power - Part IIRome's Strategic History: From the Principate to the Crisis of the Third Century - 8. he Julio-Claudian Empire - 9. he Year of the Four Emperors and the Flavians - 10. he Empire at High Tide - 11. he Severan Interlude - 12. ew Threats - 13. he Crisis of the Third Century - Part IIIThe Late Empire: New Beginnings and an End - 14. iocletian, Constantine, and a New Empire - 15. he Late Imperial Army and Strategy - 16. our Battles and a Divorce - 17. he Gothic Challenge - 18. drianople's Aftermath - 19. enouement - Conclusion - Notes - For Further Reading - Acknowledgments - Index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (ix, 444 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780197623077
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780190937706.001.0001