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This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. -- .

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It would be hard to imagine a better, or more readable, analysis of United States policy over the last fifty years than Clyde Prestowitz's Rogue Nation. -Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books

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Drawn from a wide range of warlike peoples throughout the provinces, especially on the fringes of the empire, auxiliaries wer generally not citizens of the Roman empire. The cavalry of the auxilia provided a powerful fighting arm; organised, disciplined and well trained, it was adept at performing both skirmish and shock action.

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With the vast expansion of the Roman Empire came a need for more fortifications to defend it. This work discusses the operation and social history behind the fortifications. It traces their history through the Batavian Revolt of the 1st century AD, until the decline of the late 3rd and 4th centuries.

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Roman baths can be found everywhere the Romans went. This was not so much the result of an obsession with cleanliness than the social role of bath houses as meeting places, the focus for cultural, aesthetic and physical life.

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By 390 BC, the Roman army was in need of change, as Greek-style tactics of fighting with a heavy infantry phalanx were proving increasingly outdated. Yet by the end of the 3rd century BC, Rome's prestige was shattered by the genius of Hannibal of Carthage. This book reveals these two defining moments in Roman military history.

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For nearly four centuries, Britain served as the western border of the Roman Empire. Covering various aspects of Roman British life from family, food, religion, and travel, this book allows the reader to discover what it was like to be a citizen of the greatest empire in the world, while at the same time living near the edge of the map.

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"Roman Centurions 753-31 BC: The Kingdom and the Age of Consuls".

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Investigates the Roman Empire's economic presence in Britain. Drawing from archaeological sources, this book places Roman coinage in its rightful economic and political context to understand the chronology and lives of those who used it. It is suitable for coin collectors, amateur archaeologists and those with an interest in ancient Roman Britain.

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A study of the role and rituals of death in Roman civilization. It ranges from suicides, funeral feasts, necromancy and Hades to mourning, epitaphs and posthumous damnation.

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Presents a survey of the most important aspects of life in Egypt under Roman domination, from the conquest by Octavian in 30 BC to the third century AD, as they emerge from the micro-level of the Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, but also from the ancient literary sources, and from the most important archaeological discoveries.

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In the years 27 BC to AD 235, when the Roman empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. As an integrated study of the life and outlook of the ordinary inhabitants of the Roman world, this book deepens our understanding of the underlying factors in this important formative period of world history.

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A concise study of Roman forts in Britain from the 1st to 4th century, looking at the different types and sizes of forts, watch-towers and signal stations, their layout and how they developed from marching camps, how they were built and the life of the men stationed there.

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Part of a series that provides a collection of guides to the history, art, literature, values and social institutions of the ancient world. Illustrated with numerous photographs, maps and plans, places the frontiers into their context both in Britain and Europe, this title examines the development of frontier installations over four centuries.

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From the civil wars of the Late Republic to Constantine's reunification of the Empire, corps of guardsmen were at the heart of every Roman army. This title details the nature of these units, their organization and operational successes and failures from their origins in the late Republic through to their struggle against Constantine the Great.

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Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Spaniards, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong. This title deals with this topic.