Not new, but still one of my favorite books:

Edith Mary Wightman, Gallia belgica (Berkely and Los Angeles, 1985).

Complete text:

http://books.google.de/books?id=aEyS54uSj88C&lpg=PP1&dq=Wightman%20Belgica&hl=de&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Wightman%20Belgica&f=false

You could also try:

Maureen Carrol, Romans, Celts & Germans: The German Provinces of Rome (Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 2001).

http://books.google.de/books?id=cEIiAQAAIAAJ&q=inauthor:%22Maureen+Carroll%22&dq=inauthor:%22Maureen+Carroll%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=plPjU4rnBs6P4gTS3YHYCA&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCQ

Regards,

Stefan

No book, but this link provides also useful information about the history of the Germanic provinces:

http://www2.rgzm.de/transformation/home/FramesUK.cfm

It is the product of the project: "Transformation. The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 A.D.", which was supported between July 2004 and June 2007 by the European Commission.

Regards,

Stefan

Thank you, Stefan!

Best regards, 

Rafaela

Even older, but should be helpful: Colin Wells, The German Policy of Augustus (1972).

Dear Rafaela, a good start is to read the entries on "Germania" in the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Furthermore, I think you cannot do without reading  Caesar's "De bello gallico" and Tacitus' "Germania".

Further recommendations:

Todd, Malcolm (1992). The early Germans.

Herwig, Wolfram (1997). The Roman empire and its Germanic peoples.

Miles, Richard (Ed.). (1999). Constructing identities in late antiquity.

Thank you, Joann and Pradeep!

Hallo Rafaela, maybe "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" by Hugh Elton (London 1996) would be helpful. The book contains a chapter about the consolidation of the Rhine frontier.

Hallo Werner,

Thank you!! 

Hello Rafaela, perhaps the following (albeit Dutch) case-study can be interesting to take a look at as well: N. Roymans, Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power : The Batavians in the Early Roman Empire (Amsterdam 2004).

Thank you, Joost.

For a primary source, read Tacitus' Germania.

Hello Rafaela,

You already have received a number of useful suggestions, to which I’d like to add a couple more:

Ian Haynes, Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans (Oxford 2013).

and

María Paz García-Bellido, Las legiones hispánicas en Germania: moneda y ejército (Madrid 2004, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Ciéntificas). This is quite a specialized study, but very illuminating for its tight focus on the specific impact the presence of military units from one provincial area on another.

There is also a very readable book on the transformation of Gaul that  touches on the German provinces in the time period you are interested in: Becoming Roman, the origins of provincial civilization in Gaul, by Greg Woolf (Cambridge 1998).

Hope this helps, Michael

Hello Thomas and Michael, 

Thank you!! 

Cheers, Rafaela

Hi Rafaela

This is an old article, but it can be useful:

O. Brogan 1936; Trade between the Roman Empire and the Free Germans, "Journal of Roman Studies" 26(2): 195-222.

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/articles/Brogan_Trade_between_The_Roman_Empire_and_the_Free_Germans.pdf

Best Regards

Maciej Wawrzczak

Hi Maciej, 

Thank you!

Cheers, 

Rafaela

recent, R. Wolters : among others his Die Römer in Germanien (Beck, München, 2001) but he has written others.

Sorry, I had not seen German was not the right language : hmm what about the Cambridge Ancient History ? It is very complete.

Thanks Yasmina! Currently I am not working anymore with Roman paintings, but I will keep these both books in my list, they may be helpful in the future! Cheers!

my pleasure, prego :-)