"From Village to Empire" introduces ancient Rome to readers eager for a concise and engaging understanding of its political, social, and cultural history. It traces Rome's remarkable evolution from monarchy, to republic, to one-man rule by an emperor whose power stretched from Scotland to Iraq and far up the Nile valley.ITALY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD; CHAPTER 2: ROME'S FIRST CENTURIES; CHAPTER 3: ROME AND ITALY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY; CHAPTER 4: THE BEGINNINGS OF A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE; CHAPTER 5: ITALY AND EMPIRE; CHAPTER 6: ITALY, THREATENED, ENFRANCHISED, DIVIDED; CHAPTER 7: THE DOMINATION OF SULLA AND ITS LEGACY; CHAPTER 8: END OF THE REPUBLIC; CAESAR'S DICTATORSHIP; CHAPTER 9; AUGUSTUS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD; CHAPTER 10: THE EARLY PRINCIPATE (AD 14-69); THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS, THE CIVIL WAR OF 68-69, AND LIFE IN THE EARLY EMPIRE; CHAPTER 11: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE PRINCIPATE, MILITARY EXPANSION AND ITS LIMITS, THE EMPIRE AND THE PROVINCES (69-138); CHAPTER 12: ITALY AND PROVINCES: CIVIL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS (138-235); CHAPTER 13: THE THIRD CENTURY, THE DOMINATE, AND CONSTANTINE