Book

The urbanization of Rome and Latium Vetus : from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era

Fulminante, Francesca

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Cities and towns, Ancient Italy, Central. / Cities and towns Rome. / Urbanization Italy, Central. / Urbanization Rome History. / Land settlement patterns Italy, Central History. / Land settlement patterns Rome History. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. / Italy History To 476.
• ISBN: 9781107030350, 1107030358

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DG221.5.F85 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE