Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire

by Richard Hobbs and Ralph Jackson

The British Museum's new introductory guide to Roman Britain combines an informative text with first-class design and is illustrated with plentiful artefacts from the museum's collections. Throughout the book the emphasis is on cultural interaction and change, showing the impact of the Roman presence, but also British survivals; the book starts, perhaps unusually for general guides of this kind, with a section on pre-Roman Britain, and ends with a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714150614
• ISBN13: 9780714150611
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.8"