The Romanization of Britain

MARTIN MILLETT is Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, where he is also a life fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He has led fieldwork and excavations in Britain and across Western Europe, and is currently President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

'It should be clear that this is one of the most important and original books to be published on Roman Britain for many years, and one which all researchers into and students of Roman Britain will find themselves referring to again and again.' Greg Woolf, Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

• List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Romanization of Britain in perspective; 1. The nature of Roman imperialism; 2. The pattern of later Iron Age societies; 3. The invasion strategy and its consequences; 4. The emergence of the 'civitates'; 5. The maturity of the 'civitates'; 6. Development at the periphery; 7. The developed economy; 8. Later Roman rural development; Epilogue: decline and fall?; References; Index.