Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE) Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE)

Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE‪)‬

    • $74.99
    • $74.99

Publisher Description

This important new volume examines archaeological evidence of Roman colonization of the Middle Republican period.  Themes of land use, ethnic accommodation and displacement, colonial identity, and administrative schemes are also highlighted. In delving deeply into the uniqueness of select colonial contexts, these essays invite a novel discussion on the phenomenon of colonialism in the political landscape of Rome’s early expansion. Roman urbanism of the Middle Republican period brought to the Italian peninsula fundamental changes, an important example of which, highlighted by a wealth of studies, is the ebullience of a dense network of colonies, as well as a mix of senatorial tactics and individual initiatives that underpinned their foundation.  Whether Latin, Roman, or Maritimae, colonies created a new mesh of communities and imposed a new topography; more subtly, they signified the mechanisms of the rising hegemony. This book brings to the fore the diversity, agendas, and overall impact of a “settlement device” that changed the Italian landscape and introduced a new idea of Roman town.

 

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2019
November 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
310
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Michigan Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
6.8
MB
Veii Veii
2019
Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture
2012
Caere Caere
2016
Life and Death in the Roman Suburb Life and Death in the Roman Suburb
2020
Death and the Emperor Death and the Emperor
2010
Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete
2017