The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus

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The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus is written by Francesca Fulminante and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107655846 (ISBN 10) and 9781107655843 (ISBN 13).

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 multi-theoretical 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.