Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul

by Greg Woolf

Book Overview

This book studies the processes conventionally termed Romanization through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC-AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation between the iron-age cultures of Gaul and the civilization we call classical. It develops an original synthesis and argument that will form a bridge between the disciplines of classics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521789826
• ISBN13: 9780521789820
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"