The urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus : from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era / Francesca Fulminante.

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

xx, 411 pages ; 26 cm

"This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multitheoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanization as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions"-- Provided by publisher.

English

April 28, 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Urbanization and state formation in Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: historical questions and theoretical models; 2. The Latin landscape, data and methodology; 3. The city scale: Rome from a small Bronze Age village to the great city of the Archaic Age; 4. The territory scale: definition and dating of the Ager Romanus antiquus; 5. The territory scale: the Roman hinterland from the Bronze Age to the Republican period; 6. The regional scale: settlement pattern analysis in Latium vetus from the Bronze to the Archaic Age; 7. Multidimensional and multi-theoretical approach to the urbanization and state formation in Latium vetus.