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Informationen zum Autor Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics, History, and Law at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa. He is author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire and The Matter of the Gods. Klappentext Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics, History, and Law at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa. He is author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire and The Matter of the Gods. Zusammenfassung Law! Language! and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law Chapter 2. Law's Empire Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
