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  • Chapter 2 - Imperial Integration on Rome’s Atlantic Rim

  • from Part I - Empire
  • Edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Empire and Religion in the Roman World
    Published online:
    26 August 2021
    Print publication:
    19 August 2021, pp 35-70

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the impact of Roman imperial expansion on the Atlantic rim of the Roman empire, an “ecological frontier,” so the chapter argues, that traced a natural arc encompassing southern Ireland, southwest Britain, the whole Atlantic coast of Gaul from the Cherbourg Peninsula to the Pyrénées, most of the Iberian Peninsula, and the far northwestern corner of the African continent. A set of case studies illustrates how the territories, resources, and peoples of this ecological frontier zone were integrated into a Roman imperial system centered on the Mediterranean basin. The chapter argues that this Atlantic rim was integrated in a highly differentiated way that not only shattered a preexisting Atlantic world that had been bounded and unified, but also reordered its constituent parts in the service of empire. The chapter’s central thesis, seemingly paradoxical, is that imperial integration and regional fragmentation went together.