ROME: AN EMPIRE’S STORY

Book ID/图书代码： 02630512B54775

English Summary/英文概要： The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today the Roman empire offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of its monuments and literature can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa - and sometimes even further afield. This is the story of how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects - a story spanning a millennium and a half. Chapters that tell the story of the unfolding of Rome’s empire alternate with discussions based on the most recent evidence into the conditions that made the Roman imperial achievement possible and also so durable, covering topics as diverse as ecology, slavery, and the cult paid to gods and men. Rome was not the only ancient empire. Comparison with other imperial projects helps us see what it was that was so distinctive about ancient Rome. Ancient Rome has also often been an explicit model for other imperialisms. Rome, An Empire’s Story shows quite how different Roman imperialism was from modern imitations. The story that emerges outlines the advantages of Rome had over its neighbours at different periods - some planned, some quite accidental - and the stages by which Rome’s rulers successively had to change the way they ruled to cope with the problems of growth. As Greg Woolf demonstrates, nobody ever planned to create a state that would last more than a millennium and a half, yet the short term politics of alliances between successively wider groups created a structure of extraordinary stability. Rome’s Empire was able, in the end, to survive barbarian migrations, economic collapse and even the conflicts between a series of world religions that had grown up within it, in the process generating an imagery and a myth of empire that is apparently indestructible.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 帝国的概念是从古代罗马开始建立起来的，而且至今罗马帝国还留给人们很多有关帝国主义的想象。其历史遗迹和文学作品还能在欧洲，中东，南美，甚至更远的地方被挖掘出来。本书介绍了这个庞大的帝国的建立过程，它是如何度过危机的，它的统治者是如何使这个王朝持续了1500多年耳朵。本书介绍了罗马帝国博大精深的历史，还有根据近期发现的证明罗马帝国发展壮大并繁衍传承的证据所进行的讨论，所涉及的课题包括社会生态写，奴隶制度，以及献给神灵和凡人的祭祀品研究。罗马不仅仅是个古代的帝国。与其他的帝国比较起来，我们可以看到古代罗马帝国具有非常与众不同的特征。古代罗马也常常被其他帝国主义当做模仿的范本。《罗马帝国的故事》展现了罗马帝国主义与现代根据它所模仿的主义有何不同，还介绍了罗马在不同方面优于其他国家的地方，有些是人为计划的，有些也是偶然获得的。罗马历代的统治者也根据现实情况对自己的统治方法进行过调整。根据Greg Woolf所说，根本没有人预料到可以创立一个持续1500多年的帝国，一个广泛的群体所创立的短期政治联盟竟然可以使帝国拥有着非凡的稳定性。罗马帝国最终能在欧洲大迁徙，经济崩溃，甚至是在世界宗教的大纷争中幸存下来并且更加繁荣昌盛，坚不可摧，期间必然有许多值得人们探索的秘密。(XAT)

Awards/获奖情况：这本书是对罗马历史充满激情的探索与研究。——《出版者周刊》

这是本很棒的书。Woolf详细地阐述了罗马帝国的兴衰，并提出了疑问，这些是如何，并且是怎样发生的。但是，他并没有简单地给出自己的答案，而是细细地列出证据，进行讨论，让读者试图去明白。（Adrian Goldsworthy，《罗马的衰败》的作者）

[a] passionately told exploration of the history of Rome (Publishers Weekly)

This is a marvellous book. Woolf provides a sweeping history of Rome’s rise and fall, and asks the big questions of why and how this happened. Better yet, he offers no simple or simplistic answers, but instead well considered discussion of the evidence and how we try to understand it (Adrian Goldsworthy, author of How Rome Fell)

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