"Originally published as L'Inventaire du monde: gaeographie et politique aux origines de l'empire Romain, c1988 by Librairie Arthaeme Fayard. Also published as L'inventario del mondo: geografia e politica alle origini dell'impero Romano, c1989 by Editori Laterza."--Title page verso.
Documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. The author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they knew and conquered. Claude Nicolet studies both the agrimensores, who in the state's interest took care to observe and record territories for Britain to the farther reaches of Asia Minor, and M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the sometime son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus.