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Making the Middle Republic
Showcases new approaches that reveal the remarkable transformation of Roman and Italian societies during the Middle Republican period.
Collapse or Survival
In the present-day world order, political disintegration, the faltering of economic systems, the controversial yet dramatic consequences of global warming and pollution, and the spread of poverty and social disruption in Western countries have rendered ‘collapse’ one of the hottest topics in the humanities and social sciences. In the frenetic run for identifying the global causes and large-scale consequences of collapse, however, instances of crisis taking place at the micro-scale are not always explored by scholars addressing these issues in present and past societies, while the ‘voices’ of the marginal/non-élite subjects that might be the main victims of collapse are often silence...
Ancient Bovillae
The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Italian city and its later decline
Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy
This innovative book uses social network analysis to trace the origins of pre-Roman Italian peoples from their earliest exchange networks.
The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)
The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy provides a comprehensive account of the many peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium BCE. Written by more than fifty authors, the book describes the diversity of these indigenous cultures, their languages, interactions, and reciprocal influences. It gives emphasis to Greek colonization, the rise of aristocracies, technological innovations, and the spread of literacy, which provided the urban texture that shaped the history of the Italian peninsula.
Progress in Powder Metallurgy
The large number, and high quality, of the papers making up this collection reflect the continuing vigor of the powder-metallurgy industry and associated research all over the world. The emergence of such new fields as nano-materials, cellular materials and process modeling by computer simulation is very evident, while traditional fields such as compaction and sintering are also being tackled anew using more sophisticated concepts and tools. Globalization of the economic structure presents challenging opportunities for powder metallurgy, and there is an increasing demand for high-productivity, low-cost, highquality, new products, together with reduced pollution.
The "Birth" of Italy
Scholarship has widely debated the question about the existence of an 'Italian identity' in the time of the Roman Republic, basing on the few sources available and on the outcomes of the Augustan and imperial age. In this sense, this debate has for a long time been conducted without sufficient imput from social sciences, and particularly from social geography, which has developed methodologies and models for the investigation of identities. This book starts therefore from the consideration that Italy came to be, by the end of the Republic, a region within the Roman imperium, and investigates the ways this happened and its consequences on the local populations and their identity structures. It shows that Italy gained a territorial and symbolic shape, and own institutions defining it as a territorial region, and that a regional identity developed as a consequence by the 2nd century BCE. The original, interdisciplinary approach to the matter allows a consistent revision of the ancient sources and sheds now light on the topic, providing important reflections for future studies on the subject.
Les Vestins à l'époque tardo-républicaine. Du nord-osque au latin
En Italie centro-méridionale, la domination romaine se met en place au début du IIIe siècle avant notre ère. Chez les Vestins, la langue parlée et écrite est alors un dialecte osque. Près de trois siècles plus tard, sous Auguste, le latin devient la seule langue attestée. Il y a eu latinisation : la langue indigène a été remplacée par le latin, dans un nombre croissant de contextes. Nous étudions ici les facteurs et les modalités de ce processus socio-linguistique, à partir de la documentation littéraire, archéologique et épigraphique subsistante. Les Vestins n'ont pas considéré leur langue comme une composante de la représentation qu'ils se faisaient d'eux-mêmes : leurs élites qui disposaient des usages publics et privés de l'écriture, du moins de ceux qui sont attestés, étaient toutes disposées à y renoncer.
Le date che fanno la storia
Le date che adoperiamo per consuetudine a partire dai banchi di scuola – date di scoperte, di guerre, di eventi basilari – bastano a definire con nettezza i momenti qualificanti del passato, in un mondo sempre più globalizzato, nel quale gli intrecci e le sovrapposizioni sono infinite? Patrick Boucheron, nome di grido nel contemporaneo Pantheon degli storici francesi, tenta di rispondere a questa domanda. E lo fa con un piglio sicuramente originale. Amedeo Feniello, "la Lettura – Corriere della Sera" Nella storia dell'umanità esistono date che rappresentano un evento, un momento in cui sentiamo la curvatura del tempo, la separazione tra un prima e un dopo. Ma cos'è un evento storico? Cosa lo rende tale? Questo libro si propone di rispondere indagando trenta date e, ripercorrendole, Patrick Boucheron ne fa risuonare l'eco nella nostra memoria e restituisce alla storia la sua forza motrice e la sua arte di sorprenderci, sempre. La storia è fatta di date, di eventi che segnano il tempo come pietre miliari e lo scandiscono. E ogni data, sia essa famosa o inaspettata, diventa la porta d'accesso a una storia che accoglie immaginazione, ricordi, emozioni.
