BEYOND ROMANS AND NATIVES

Revisionist studies of Roman imperialism and Romanization continue to show the traces of modem debates on imperialism and colonialism, in pa rticular a tendency to analyse cultural change in terms of the interac tion of two ethnic cultures. An analysis of the changing unities and d iversities of cultures in Gaul (modern France), and of the transformat ion of Roman culture during and as a result of imperial expansion, sug gests a new view of the nature and genesis of Roman imperial culture.