Preface
List of illustrations
List of maps
Abbreviations
Timeline
Part I. The Long-Term Evolution of Roman Power
Part II. The Romans against Outsiders, 400 BC to 16 AD:
1. Armed force and enduring control under the Middle Republic: an outline
2. Techniques of domination under the Middle Republic, to 241 BC
3. World power, 241 to 146 BC
4. Questions and controversies
5. Almost irresistible
6. Conclusion
Part III. The Romans against Each Other, from Republic to Monarchy:
7. Inside an aristocratic society
8. The form and nature of the polity in the Middle Republic
9. Late-republican discontents
10. One-man rule and its effects on wider power-relationships
11. Charismatic power, economic power
12. Internal power, external power
Part IV. The Romans against Outsiders, 16 to 337 AD:
13. Expansion slows and ceases
14. Desires and reasons
15. Emperors and their rivals
16. Military strength and weakness
17. Knowledge and methods
18. Conclusion
Part V. The Romans against Each Other: from Empire to Nation?:
19. Durability and docility: the historical problem
20. Assimilation and identity
21. The emperor
22. Imperial questions
23. Diocletian and Constantine
24. High and mid-level officials
25. Order and law
26. Lower officials
27. Social and gender power
28. The power of ideas
29. Internal power, external power
Part VI. The Romans against Outsiders, 337 to 636 AD:
30. The crucial decades
31. Western woes
32. An attempt at explanation
33. Two centuries later
34. The unsustainability of Justinian's empire
35. Conclusion
Part VII. The Romans against Each Other in Two Long Crises:
36. Sixty crucial years of imperial power
37. Bishops, priests and the state
38. Social disintegration
39. Ideas
40. From Justinian to Heraclius and beyond
41. Internal rivals
42. Internal power, external power
Part VIII. Retrospect and Some Reflections
References
Index.
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