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The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars

byKathryn Lomas

By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, The Rise of Rome moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing The Rise of Rome within history and social science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. The Rise of Rome emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Publication date

Feb 26, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

432

ISBN

9780674659650