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use with confidence. The individual contributors must be commended
for submitting such excellent material. But it is the editors...who
deserve the warmest commendation for the sureness of their
judgement in soliciting contributions of high calibre and for
editing the work of many different historians to produce a volume
which is...both accurate on matters of fact and secure in its
historical assessments and which...displays greater originality
than most collective works of this nature." International History
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Classical Bulletin
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the history of the various separate regions of the Empire ...
volume XI is perhaps the most successful of all the Roman volumes
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contribution by Brent Shaw on 'Rebel and Outsiders.' English
Historical Review
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figures working in the field ... behind each paragraph stands a
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vol. XI will provide useful guidance for many decades to come in
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other eras might benefit from its lessons.' M. Maas, Rice
University
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