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Adrian Goldsworthy

About Adrian Goldsworthy

Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian of ancient Rome and of the Roman army. He took his doctorate at Oxford with a study later published as The Roman Army at War, 100 BC-AD 200, and has taught at several universities before turning to full-time writing. His books include The Fall of Carthage, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, How Rome Fell, Augustus and Hadrian's Wall, and he has also written historical novels set in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

Adrian Goldsworthy

2016 · Postwar Contemporary · History

Pax Romana asks what the famous Roman peace actually was, how it was created, and how it was kept. Adrian Goldsworthy's answer begins with conquest.

Colonialism Empire War Violence Power / Politics