Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction

by Peter Salway

Overview

Peter Salway's Very Short Introduction to Roman Britain weaves together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a rounded and highly readable concise account. He charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion under Julius Caesar to the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the West around AD 500.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192854049
Publisher:	Oxford Paperbacks
Publication date:	07/11/2002
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 4.40(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

Peter Salway, formerly a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and subsequently of All Souls College, Oxford, is an Emeritus Professor of the Open University and Chairman of the Oxford Archaeological Unit. His publications include The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain, published by OUP in 1993 (reissued in paperback by OUP in 1997 as A History of Roman Britain). He has served as a Member of Council of the National Trust (appointed by the Society of Antiquaries), and was one of the editors of The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust (Boydell, 1996). He has also published a substantial number of articles and reviews in learned journals and publications for the general reader, mostly on Roman Britain and Classical Antiquity in general, a few on medieval and later British archaeology and architectural history.

Table of Contents

1. The beginnings of British history

Editorial Reviews

"[Peter Salway] admirably succeeds in condensing 400 years of Romano-British history into less than 110 pages, holding the reader's attention with frequent sociocultural and economic digressions. Moreover, his plain and engaging style make a complex and often problematic set of historical information accessible to the broader public." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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