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Policing the Roman Empire soldiers, administration, and public order

Title: Policing the Roman Empire [electronic resource] : soldiers, administration, and public order / Christopher J. Fuhrmann.
Author: Fuhrmann, Christopher J.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description

1 online resource (xx, 330 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Policing the Roman Empire (Online)

Alternative Title

Policing the Roman Empire (Online)

Subject

Police > Rome > History
Soldiers > Rome > History
Magistrates, Roman > History
Social control > Rome > History
Roman provinces > History
Roman provinces > Politics and government
Roman provinces > Social conditions
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-476 A.D
Rome > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-293) and indexes.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Roman emperors from Augustus to Julian -- Maps of the Roman Empire -- "Arrest me, for I have run away": fugitive slave hunting in the Roman Empire -- "Like a thief in the night": self-help, magisterial authority, and civilian policing -- "I brought peace to the provinces": Augustus and the rhetoric of imperial peace -- "To squelch the discord of the rabble": military policing in Rome and Italy under Augustus' successors -- "Let there be no violence contrary to my wish": emperors and provincial order -- "Keep your province pacified and quiet": provincial governors, public order, and policing -- "Military stations throughout all provinces": detached-service soldier-police -- Appendix: Differentiating stationarii from beneficiarii consulares and other detached-service soldiers.

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