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This book comprises sixteen articles published over thirty years, with supplements including two additional essays. Its range is broad, from discussions of Rome's aspirations to world dominion, to studies of provincial administration. The results of these studies suggest that Roman rule was not endeared to the subjects by the lightness of the burdens imposed, nor by the integrity and professional competence of the administrators; both have often been overestimated. The higher orders among the conquered peoples, however, were eventually reconciled by the Roman policy of assimilating them to Romans, and entrusting to them control of local affairs and an increasing influence in central government. Though the attitude of the masses to the empire is virtually unknowable, there was, except in Judaea, no national resistance comparable to that in the British empire, a theory illustrated by detailed consideration of the first-century revolts in Gaul and Judaea. About one-third of the contents of this volume is new.
Sulla and Asian publicans; The revolt of Vindex and the fall of Nero; Tacitus on the Baravian revolt; Charge of provincial maladministration under the early principate; Augustan imperialism; Reflections on British and Roman imperialism; The 'fiscus' and its development; Procural jurisdiction; Conscription and volunteering in the Roman Imperial Army; The administrators of Roman Egypt; Did imperial Rome disarm her subject?; The Romanization of the local ruling classes in the Roman Empire; Josephus on social conflicts in Roman Judaea; Laus Imperii; The revenues of Rome; Roman imperial illusions; Addenda to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15; Indexes
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