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The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

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Author: Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Date Published: August 2020
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108436854

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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.
- Proposes a radical new interpretation of early Roman imperialism
- Integrates archaeological data to a much greater extent than previous treatments
- Written in accessible and non-technical language so as to appeal to a wide readership
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'A very important read for those interested in early Roman history, in historiography, or in the relationship of history and myth.' A. A. Nofi, New York Military Affairs Symposium Review

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Product details
- Date Published: August 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108436854
- length: 347 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 168 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 23 b/w illus. 21 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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).