Covering the period from AD14 to 284, this comprehensive book reviews the social and economic history of the Roman Empire. Fergus Millar is the author of thirteen chapters on Rome and the provinces, arranged by topic, such as Governments and Administration, State and Subject, Italy, and Africa. These chapters for the bulk of the book and are supplemented by fours chapters by other authors (D. Berciu, Richard N. Frye, Georg Kossack and Tamara Talbot Rice) on the Parthians and Sasanid Persians, Dacians, Scytho-Sarmatians and Germans.