Roman and Modern Imperialism
A Reassessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary B Miles (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 629-659 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500016686 |
| OpenAlex | W2144298748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 57 |
Those who view Rome from the perspective of modern empires have been struck by Rome's longevity (for example, Brunt 1965:267; Doyle 1986:81-103; Syme 1958:1). Attempts to explain this phenomenon, however, have given little if any consideration to why movements of national independence have occurred in modern times, but not in Roman antiquity. This is the more striking inasmuch as nationalist rebellions against imperial rule typically accompanied the dissolution of direct imperial control over native populations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Certainly the decisions of modern imperialists to give up their empires have been influenced by political idealism or by calculations of economic self-interest unique to their historical situations (Liithy 1964:34). Nonetheless, the role of their subjects must also be taken into consideration, because it was the initiative of the colonial natives, not that of the imperial masters, that typically has resulted in the first calls for independence and, most often, in the nationalist rebellions that provoked imperialists into dismantling their empires. Idealistic impulses and calculations of economic self-interest alike have taken place within the context of that initiative and cannot help but to have been colored by it. It would be a mistake to identify nationalist sentiment and rebellion as the only reasons for the collapse of modern empires, but they must be included among the decisive reasons
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Epistemology · Idealism · Independence (probability theory · Mistake · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy
Thresholds of Opportunity and Barriers to Change in the Right‐Sizing of States
The World Imagined
American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move
Cromer and the classics
Late Victorian and Edwardian Views of Rome and the Nature of “Defensive Imperialism”
Pax Romana/Pax Americana
Who’s Anti-Roman? Sallust and Pompeius Trogus on Mithridates
Archaeology and roman society
The National Uprisings in the Soviet Union
Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946
Legacies of empire
Social status and legal privilege in the Roman Empire.
Augustus and the Greek world
The age of revolution, 1789-1848
Corruption and the decline of Rome
Caesar Augustus
Soldier and civilian in the later Roman Empire.
Eternal victory
Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus
Greek Intellectuals and the Roman Aristocracy in the First Century b.c.
The Beneficial Ideology
The social and economic history of the Roman empire.
Rituals and power
Rituals of royalty
Nationalism and national development.
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte
Southern Gaul in the Triumviral Period
Nations and Nationalism
Race Relations in the Early Roman Empire
Native Revolt Patterns in the Roman Empire
From Empire to Nation
Trade in the Ancient Economy
The Wretched of the Earth
Death and Renewal
Imperialism in the Ancient World
Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome
Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire
Rome and the Druids
Nationalism and Social Communication
Colonization and the Making of Mankind
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Enemies of the Roman Order
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
The Roman Empire
Connexions between ‘Primary Resistance’ Movements and Modern Mass Nationalism In East and Central Africa. Part I
The Decolonization of North African History
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Imagined communities
Imperialism in the Ancient World
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
How Were Imperial Portraits Distributed throughout the Roman Empire
Colonial Elites. Rome, Spain and the Americas
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Reflections on British and Roman Imperialism
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2020 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |