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The Early Roman Expansion into Italy - Nicola Terrenato

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas
Buch | Softcover
347 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-43685-4 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
The book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy. Argues that the process was achieved by means of a grand bargain among local elites rather than through military conquest. Using archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, it reconstructs the family interactions that tied together Italian aristocrats to form a new state.
This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is usually envisaged. Deploying archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, he paints a picture of the family interactions that tied together both Roman and non-Roman aristocrats and that resulted in their pooling power and resources for the creation of a new political entity. The book is written in accessible language, without technical terms or quotations in Latin, and is heavily illustrated.

Nicola Terrenato is the Esther B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in first-millennium BCE Italy, with particular reference to northern Etruria, early Rome and the period of the Roman conquest. Since 2007, he has directed the Gabii Project. He is co-editor of Italy and the West: Comparative Issues in Romanization (2001), Articulating Local Cultures: Power and Identity under the Expanding Roman Republic (2007), State Formation in Greece and Rome (2011), Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology (2012) and A Mid-Republican House from Gabii (2016).

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Views of Roman imperialism through time; 2. The long-term context of Roman expansion: central Italian society and politics in the early first Millennium BCE; 3. The global context of Roman expansion: the central Mediterranean between the late fifth and the early third centuries BCE; 4. A heterogeneous conquest I: a cross section of polity biographies and types of conflicts; 5. A heterogeneous conquest II: family biographies and agendas; 6. The consequences of the expansion; 7. Conclusions; Works cited; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 21 Maps; 15 Halftones, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 242 mm
Gewicht 610 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-43685-4 / 1108436854
ISBN-13 978-1-108-43685-4 / 9781108436854
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