000			01546nam a2200169Ia 4500
005			20250714155848.0
008			250714s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a9780521887304
082			_a937.06 _bREV
100			_aRevell, Louise
245		0	_aRoman Imperialism and Local Identities
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2008
300			_a240 pages
500			_aIn this book, Louise Revell examines questions of Roman imperialism and Roman ethnic identity and explores Roman imperialism as a lived experience based around the paradox of similarity and difference. Her case studies of public architecture in several urban settings provides an understanding of the ways in which urbanism, the emperor and religion were part of the daily encounters of the peoples in these communities. Revell applies the ideas of agency and practice in her examination of the structures that held the empire together and how they were implicated within repeated daily activities. Rather than offering a homogenized "ideal type" description of Roman cultural identity, she uses these structures as a way to understand how these encounters differed between communities and within communities, thus producing a more nuanced interpretation of what it was to be Roman. Bringing an innovative approach to the problem of Romanization, Revell breaks from traditional models and cuts across a number of entrenched debates such as arguments about the imposition of Roman culture or resistance to Roman rule.
650			_aSocial Science
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c575687 _d575687