Peter Salway

Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

For centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Salway weaves together the latest archaeological investigations and historical scholarship to chart life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion under Julius Caesar to the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the West around AD 500.

Produktdetails

• A Very Short Introduction
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2. Aufl. 2015.
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Abmessung: 175mm x 108mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 115g
• ISBN-13: 9780198712169
• ISBN-10: 0198712162
• Artikelnr.: 42097141

Autorenporträt

Peter Salway has been a Special Adviser on Roman Britain to the National Trust Chedworth Roman Villa Development Project since the early 1990s to the present. He has written a 5-year excavation plan and a 15-year research agenda for the next stage of the project. He is the author of The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain (OUP, 1993) and The Frontier People of Roman Britain (CUP, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of maps
1: The beginnings of British history
2: The Roman conquest
3: Britain under the late empire
4: The end of Roman rule
Further Reading
Chronology
Index