Product Description

Incorporating up-to-date archaeological evidence, and current methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of Rome's beginnings and rise in a comprehensive text that will be the standard work on the subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124875 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Review
'This is an excellent, informative, and stimulating book that is also very readable. C. has given a clear and bold account of his approach to the problems in a very difficult area of history, and, by doing so, has set up a whole series of challenges to scholars working in all fields of the Roman world.' - Journal of Roman Studies

'Cornell's is the most authoritative study of early Roman history to have been written by a single author since Beloch's Romanische Geschichte of 1926. The Beginnings of Rome is an authoritative, important, and timely book from which we are all benefiting, and from which much subsequent study of early Rome will start.' - The Classical Review

From the Back Cover
The beginnings of Rome, once thought to be lost in the mists of legend, are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological evidence. This new material has made it possible to trace the development of Rome from an Iron Age village to a major state which eventually outstripped its competitors and became a Mediterranean power. T. J. Cornell lucidly recounts his version of the rise of Rome in this fully documented analysis. The Beginnings of Rome offers new and often controversial answers to major questions such as Rome's relations with the Etruscans, the conflict between patricians and plebeians, the causes of Roman imperialism and the growth of a slave-based economy.