{"product_id":"policing-the-roman-empire-9780199360017","title":"Policing the Roman Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict resolution and social control. This model, according to Christopher Fuhrmann, fails to properly account for the imperial-era evidence, which argues in fact for an expansion of state-sponsored policing activities in the first three centuries of the Common Era. Drawing on a wide variety of source material--from art, archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws, Jewish and Christian religious texts, and ancient narratives--Policing the Roman Empire provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices with chapters devoted to fugitive slave hunting, the pivotal role of Augustus, the expansion of policing under his successors, and communities lacking soldier-police that were forced to rely on self-help or\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFuhrmann's book is a very well documented and convenient synthesis on the contribution of the Roman army to law enforcement in peacetime during the imperial period. * Cedric Brelaz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations ; Roman Emperors from Augustus to Julian ; Maps of the Roman Empire ; 1. Introduction ; 2. \"Arrest me, for I have run away\": Fugitive Slave Hunting in the Roman Empire ; 3. \"Like a thief in the night\": Self-help, Magisterial Authority, and Civilian Policing ; 4. \"I brought peace to the provinces\": Augustus and The Rhetoric of Imperial Peace ; 5. \"To squelch the discord of the rabble\": Military Policing in Rome and Italy under Augustus' Successors ; 6. \"Let there be no violence contrary to my wish\": Emperors and Provincial Order ; 7. \"Keep your province pacified and quiet\": Provincial Governors, Public Order, and Policing ; 8. \"Military stations throughout all provinces\": Detached-Service Soldier-Police ; 9. Conclusion ; Appendix: Differentiating stationarii from beneficiarii consulares and Other Detached-Service Soldiers ; Bibliography ; Index of Ancient Sources ; General Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767014719831,"sku":"9780199360017","price":47.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199360017.jpg?v=1758712035","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/policing-the-roman-empire-9780199360017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}