Rome(English, Paperback, Faulkner Neil)

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Rome(English, Paperback, Faulkner Neil) is written by Faulkner Neil and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 140822920X (ISBN 10) and 9781408229200 (ISBN 13).

The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people slaves, serfs and poor peasants were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.