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Hi! Check out Richard Hingley, Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire for a post-colonialist point of view http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-02-26.html http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/BMCR-L/2006/0077.php Also...

You asked the same question in this thread where I put a link: http://community.boredofstudies.org/342/rome/90126/reference-sources-assess-achievements-agrippina-younger.html

It sounds like you have to focus on those individuals. Do you have marking guidelines attached to the task? You'll find some material on Agrippina !, Germanicus and Agrippa, summarised from Barret and Griffith (using their own words so you can quote and cite if relevant) here...

I wonder if the question is referring to officials and groups rather than individuals, since it does not specify a particular princeps. In other words, is it asking you to discuss the roles of memebers of the imperial family, legati augusti, procurators, senatorial governors, senatorials...

Here are a few ancient and modern sources I've put together that more or less relate to her achievement and strengths and weaknesses of character. If you dig around a bit you might find something you can use. http://caratacus.journalspace.com/?entryid=1374

I riffed on this topic here: http://caratacus.journalspace.com/?entryid=1313 LynH1326, I think your suggestions are excellent, though I don't totally agree with your take on Tacitus that he is a) boring (personal preference here I suppose) or b) roughly neutral to the Romans and Iceni...

And just by way of demonstrating that for every historiographical vision there is an equal and opposite revision: Nothing capable of being memorized is history. - R. G. Collingwood ;)

Re: Major Works You could look at how military historians have evaluated his contributions to the theory and practice of warfare. I remember using this book in the old General Studies course: The War of the Flea by Robert Taber...

I have found Thomas Wiedemann's The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 1989, very useful, as discussed in this thread: http://community.boredofstudies.org/32/ancient-history/39522/wiedemans-source-augustus.html

Well, beyond Classicianus and Turpilianus I'd be thinking of the 68 revolt in Gaul inspired by uncontrolled Roman financial administrators & led by Julius Vindex, legatus of Aquitania, but himself of Celtic background. And I'd be thinking of Vespasian, who finally took the principate after the...

I refer to it a bit towards the end of this article: http://caratacus.journalspace.com/?entryid=1050 To these points I'd add, in no particular order: 1. The main source is Tacitus, who was biased because he was a Roman but also because his father-in-law was a governor less than 20 years...

I can't vouch for the veracity of all of these: you should double-check any you want to use. I am well aware that I have not written anything but fictions… which is not to say they have nothing to do with the truth. - Michel Foucault Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to...

In the "Competing Narratives" thread (http://community.boredofstudies.org/34/history-extension/101309/competing-narratives.html) I incidentally posted a list of Historiographical Issues that I had used with my students to help focus on the two HSC questions and to help give structure and...

Thanks, Luscious-Llama. I taught History Extension at a local comprehensive every year from the new syllabus inception (2001) to last year. Now I'm retired, so I'm happy to share these resources which I originally prepared for my own students (who regularly achieved results well above the state...

My guess is that Pungemo has seen someone's Process Log, which may well be 30+ pages (there being no set length) - and mistaken that for the essay component of the project. Good teachers will encourage students to make the Process Log as detailed and reflective as possible on historiographical...

Then your school is in serious breach of the syllabus, which sets a mandatory limit of 2500 words for the Independent Research Project, as well as other very specific requirements. Here's the link - you and every HSC student should read these documents very carefully. Information about the...

I did say "starting point for a research project".... You could take it in all sorts of directions, and relate its particulars to the general issues of historiography. You wouldn't need to write 30 pages, though - just 2500 words plus 300 word synopsis and 600 annotated biblio. My experience...

No, I'm not doing it. I'm a teacher. But yes, it is a topic with multiple resonances for HistExt students - it would make a great starting point for a research project.

This site is fantastic! It will be of great value to students who want to go a bit deeper into J-C iconography. I probably missed it, but there doesn't seem to be a reference to Paul Zanker's Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (here...

Of interest to Historiographers might be the situation at Wikipedia, which I briefly discuss (with links) in my Domus Carataci blog post "Information wars", where I have a historiography section. The topic in this case relates to attempts by US politicians to impose their own version on entries...