The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced
an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has …

Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial
societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and …

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not.
Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an …

This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and
that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) …

Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth
century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and …

" Romanization," a concept first discussed by the British scholar Francis Haverfield in 1905,
remains the dominant model for intercultural change in the Roman provinces. Building on …

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome
formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the …

The Celtic peoples of the British Isles hold a fundamental place in our national
consciousness. In this book Simon James surveys ancient and modern ideas of the Celts …

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was
essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the'sovereign'people and their …

Livy's account of the Hannibalic War in his Third Decade (Books 21-30) is our fullest source
for one of the most crucial wars of all time; it is also a narrative history of unparalleled …