Ancient Rome

by Christopher S. Mackay

Book Overview

Ancient Rome is a concise, comprehensive political and military history of the Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476 AD. Christopher Mackay describes how military events undermined the political institutions of the Republic, how the Empire was administered and controlled, why Christianity was adopted as the state religion under Constantine, and how military...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521711495
• ISBN13: 9780521711494
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"