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The Romanization of Britain was greeted, on first publication, as an innovative study of cultural change and interaction, offering a bold new perspective on Roman Britain based on archaeological evidence. It set out to explore the social dynamics of cultural change from a local perspective by looking at the patterns of interaction between provincial peoples and imperial power. Drawing together a wide range of excavated data as well as textual evidence, it provided a new synthesis of the province whilst offering an alternative way of understanding cultural change in the Roman Empire more widely. Its publication served to catalyse debate, stimulating very considerable discussion and generating a wide variety of responses in a range of publications. This revised edition adds a new introductory essay exploring the genesis of this classic work and reviewing the subsequent debate, while also recalibrating the author's perspective on cultural change within the wider Roman provinces.
List of contents
List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Romanization of Britain in perspective; 1. The nature of Roman imperialism; 2. The pattern of later Iron Age societies; 3. The invasion strategy and its consequences; 4. The emergence of the 'civitates'; 5. The maturity of the 'civitates'; 6. Development at the periphery; 7. The developed economy; 8. Later Roman rural development; Epilogue: decline and fall?; References; Index.
About the author
MARTIN MILLETT is Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, where he is also a life fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He has led fieldwork and excavations in Britain and across Western Europe, and is currently President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
