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Man of High Empire

The Life of Pliny the Younger

By: Roy K. Gibson

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Man of High Empire

The Life of Pliny the Younger

By: Roy K. Gibson

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales in which he lived: from his hometown of Comum (Como) at the foot of the Italian Alps, down through the villa and farms he owned in Umbria, to the senate and courtrooms of Rome and the magnificent residence he owned on the coast near the capital. Organized geographically, Man of High Empire is the first full-scale biography devoted solely to the Younger Pliny. Reserved, punctilious, occasionally patronizing, and perhaps inclined to overvalue his achievements, Pliny has seemed to some the ancient equivalent of Mr. Collins, the unctuous vicar of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Roy K. Gibson reveals a man more complex than this unfair comparison suggests. An innovating landowner in Umbria and a deeply generous benefactor in Comum, Pliny is also a consul who plays with words in Rome and dispenses summary justice in the provinces. A solicitous, if rather traditional, husband in northern Italy, Pliny is also a literary modernist in Rome, and--more surprisingly--a secret pessimist about Trajan, the 'best' of emperors. Pliny's life is a window on to the Empire at its zenith. The book concludes with an archaeological tour guide of the sites associated with Pliny.

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Oxford University Press

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0199948208

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Reclaiming the Streets

By: Roy Coleman

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Reclaiming the Streets

By: Roy Coleman

In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this book is to analyse the use of CCTV within this broader social, political and ideological context, focusing on relations between surveillance, power and social order, using Liverpool as a case study. At the same time the book provides a study of social control in Liverpool city centre, exploring the development of, and meaning attributed to, social control practices by those at the centre of the implementation and management of these practices. As such the book is a study of the 'locally powerful', their organisation through the local state, and their perceptions of order and disorder in the city centre. Liverpool's CCTV network is thus seen as emblematic of the developments in social control which the book explores. The book makes a key contribution to theoretical debates around social control in four respects: it places the analysis of CCTV within an understanding of the social relations in which the technology emerged; it analyses CCTV as a normative tool of social control and not merely as a piece of crime prevention technology; it considers how social scientists and criminologists think about and understand social control in the contemporary setting; and finally it seeks to draw lessons from the Liverpool case study and considers their applicability to the study of CCTV more generally.

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269

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Routledge

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1134033745

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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger

An Introduction

By: Roy K. Gibson,Ruth Morello

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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger

An Introduction

By: Roy K. Gibson,Ruth Morello

Situates Pliny's Letters within the letter-writing tradition, offers new readings of favourite letters, and emphasises the importance of understanding letters within the context of original books or informal 'cycles'. For advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the study of ancient letters and imperial Latin literature.

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363

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Cambridge University Press

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0521842921

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9780521842921

Man of High Empire

The Life of Pliny the Younger

By: Roy K. Gibson

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The Life of Pliny the Younger

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199948194

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Psychology

By: Douglas A. Bernstein

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Psychology

By: Douglas A. Bernstein

Examines the ways in which research methods have been applied to understanding behaviour and mental processes. The unique "Linkages" system helps students understand the relationships among the subfields of psychology.

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780

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Houghton Mifflin

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0395770718

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Lawrence Pollard

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King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Lawrence Pollard

Rogers' story in his own words, lavishly illustrated with photographs from his private collection.

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Collins Pub San Francisco

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0002554496

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9780002554497

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