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Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE)
Andrea U. De Giorgi, EditorThis 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.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Chapter 1. The Colonial Landscape of the Middle Republic
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Chapter 2. Cosa
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Chapter 3. The foedera navalia of Paestum and Cosa and the Radical Switch in Roman Colonial Policy between 273 and 268 BCE
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Chapter 4. The Brundisium elogium (AE 1954.216) and the History of Republican Colonization
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Chapter 5. Cosa Revealed
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Chapter 6. Ariminum
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Chapter 7. Between Colonial Echoes and Urban Transformations
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Chapter 8. Interamna Lirenas, a History of “Success”?
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Chapter 9. Rusellae between Crisis and Revival
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Chapter 10. Forum Novum and the Limits of Roman Colonization in Italy
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Chapter 11. Regionalism or Romanitas?
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Chapter 12. Colonial Waters
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Chapter 13. Rome
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Contributors
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Bibliography
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Index
- 978-0-472-12595-1 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-13154-9 (hardcover)