| ISBN13: | 9781032222684 |
| ISBN10: | 1032222689 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 588 pages |
| Size: | 246x189 mm |
| Weight: | 1250 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 206 Illustrations, black & white; 20 Illustrations, color; 206 Halftones, black & white; 20 Halftones, color; 4 Tables, black & white |
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The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion
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The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.
Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic, superseding traditional academic particularism. They present a significant re-evaluation of the process of Roman imperialism and the role of urbanization within it. Particular attention is paid to evidence for local agency in different regions and at different sites, but general trends are also highlighted. Various types of urban sites are examined, including Indigenous urban centers that pre-date Rome?s conquest, colonies, both Greek and Roman, small centers in the hinterlands of larger urban entities, and the symbiotic relationship between urban centers and their rural territories. This volume challenges the existence of a standardized ?Roman model? imposed on Rome?s vanquished enemies through conquest and highlights that this was a period of intense experimentation. Archaeological data are used to challenge traditional text-based historiographic models and reveal the complex interplay and tensions between Roman imperial control, local and regional traditions, and broader Mediterranean trends.
This book is of importance to archaeologists and ancient historians working on urbanism and Roman Imperialism, as well as those interested in early urbanism in the Western Mediterranean and Europe and the comparative study of imperialism and colonialism across geographical areas and historical periods.
Introduction; Part 1. Italian urbanism in the broader context: 1 Post-Conquest Urbanism in Hellenistic Italy: Peninsular Perspectives; Part 2. Etruria and Latium: 2 The First Steps of Roman Conquest: Etruria and Latium; 3 Diverging Narratives: Archaeology, Historical Sources and Urban Trajectories in South Etruria; 4 Falerii: One Name, Two Towns; 5 The Creation of Falerii Novi and the Roman conquest: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives; 6 Filling in the Gaps: the Urban Development of Early and Mid-Republican Gabii; 7 The Urban Form in Latium Adiectum in the Mid-Republican Period: Geo-Political Dynamics, Institutions, Cultural Models and Urban Experiences; 8 Populonia and North Etruria; 9 The Foundation of Cosa. Context, Plans, and Resources; Part 3. Campania and the Apennines: 10 Early Roman Expansion into Campania and the Apennines; 11 More Than Meets the Eye. Fortified Settlements and Micro-Scale Community in Samnium ca. 300?100 BCE; 12 Beneventum. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Urban and Rural Organization; 13 Urban Settlement, Rural Landscape and ?Romanization? in Campania Between Neapolis and Suessula; 14 Pompeii. New Data on Urban Development Between the Fourth and the First Centuries BCE; 15 Rome and the Plain of Paestum: Historical Aspects and Archaeological Evidence; Part 4. The Adriatic Region: 16 From Sea to Sea: Rome on the Adriatic; 17 The Birth of the City and the Urbanization of the Ager Gallicus (Fourth-First Century BCE); 18 Assessing the Impact of Roman Colonization on Early Urbanisation Dynamics in Central Adriatic Italy, with a Focus on Northern Picenum; Part 5. South Italy: 19 South Italy Before and After the Conquest; 20 Larinum and the Lower Biferno Valley, 400 BCE ? 50 BCE; 21 Urban Trends in the Interior of Puglia (Peucetia) and Basilicata (Oenotria/Lucania): The Case of the Basentello Valley; 22 Roman Colonization and Urbanization in Southern Italy: the Case of Daunia; 23 Reconsidering the Impact of Roman Expansionism on Daunian Population Centres in the Melfese Area: New Data on the Primary Settlements of Venosa, Banzi, and Lavello; 24 Urbanization and the Process of Romanization in Today?s Calabria; Part 6. Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica: 25 The First Provinces: Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica; 26 Urbanism in Sicily at the Birth of the Roman Province; 27 Morgantina Under Roman Rule: Continuity & Change; 28 Urbanization in Roman Sardinia from the Third to the First Century BCE; Part 7: Roman conquest and urbanization: a reappraisal: 29 Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion; 30 Anything to Do with Conquest?