Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity

Carlos F. Noreña is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West (2011), co-editor of From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World (2018) and The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual (2010). He is currently working on a book on law, empire and political culture in the Roman Republic.

• General Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)Introduction, Carlos F. Noreña, (University of California Berkeley, USA)1. War, Michael Taylor, (University of Texas at Austin, USA)2. Trade, Sitta von Reden, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)3. Natural Worlds, Nicholas Purcell, (University of Oxford, UK)4. Labor, Elio Lo Cascio, (Universita di Roma, Italy)5. Mobility, Sailakshmi Ramgopal, (University of Chicago, USA)6. Sexuality, Caroline Vout, (University of Cambridge, UK)7. Resistance, Lisa Pilar Eberle, (University of Oxford, UK)8. Race, Emma Dench, (Harvard University, USA)NotesFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex

Each volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty