Roman Britain (Routledge Revivals) - 9781138021594

Taylor & Francis

Roman Britain (Routledge Revivals)Author(s): Edward Jones, Michael Hayhoe, Beryl Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138021594, 978-1138021594\nSynopsis\nRoman Britain, first published in 1972, gives the young reader a vivid impression of the British Isles immediately preceding, during and after the Roman occupation, which lasted for 400 years. Using a selection of extracts, both historical and imaginative, it offer a suitably comprehensive account of Roman Britain: the campaigns fought to subdue it, the military and civil government established to govern it, relations between the Imperial administration and the natives, and the departure of the legions to fight elsewhere in the Empire. \n\nSelections of poetry by John Masefield, [url] Auden, Rudyard Kipling and [url] Housman are included, together with prose extracts from Bede, Tacitus, Hilaire Belloc, Henry Treece, Alfred Duggan, Rudyard Kipling. Physically.