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

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Fulminante, Francesca
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Urbanization of Rome and Latium Vetus
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Urbanisation 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 urbanisation and state formation in Latium vetus.
Summary
"This book focuses on urbanisation and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organisation 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 urbanisation as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions"--
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9781107689749 (electronic bk.)
1107689740 (electronic bk.)
9781107596443 (PDF ebook)
1107596440 (PDF ebook)
9781139343404
1139343408
9781139891295 (e-book)
1139891294
9781107701724 (e-book)
1107701724
9781107030350
1107030358
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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