Author Description

Few Empires Had Such An Impact On The Conquered Peoples As Did The Roman Empire, Creating Social, Economic, And Cultural Changes That Erased Long-standing Differences In Material Culture, Languages, Cults, Rituals And Identities. But Even Rome Could Not Create A Single Unified Culture. Individual Decisions Introduced Changes In Material Culture, Identity, And Behavior, Creating Local Cultures Within The Global World Of The Roman Empire That Were Neither Roman Nor Native. The Author Uses Northwest Italy As An Exemplary Case As It Went From A Marginal Zone To One Of The Most Flourishing And Strongly Urbanized Regions Of Italy, While Developing A Unique Regional Culture. This Volume Will Appeal To Researchers Interested In The Roman Empire, As Well As Those Interested In Individual And Cultural Identity In The Past. -- Publisher's Description. 1.conceptualising Processes Of Sociocultural Change -- 1.1.deconstructing `romanisation' -- 1.2.adoptions And Adaptations In An Asymmetric Contact Situation -- 1.3.integrating The `periphery' And Its People -- 1.4.negotiating Identities In A Global World -- 1.5.the Individual And His/her Personal Choices -- 1.6.from De-romanising Italy To Individual Creativity -- 2.discrepant Identities In The Republic -- 2.1.cultural Identities At The `eve' Of The Conquest -- 2.2.the Destructiveness Of The Roman Conquest -- 2.3.identities And The Socioeconomics Of Coinage -- 2.4.peace Treaties And Their Cultural Implications -- 2.5.latin Rights: Integration And Segregating -- 2.6.discrepant Identities: Epigraphy And Onomastics -- 2.7.the Last Generation Of `celto-ligurians' -- 2.8.conclusion: Persistence, Bricolage And Rupture -- 3.the Roman Framework: Overpowering Or Make-believe? -- 3.1.economic Landscape -- 3.2.colonisation As Forced Assimilation? -- 3.3.administrative `conformity' And Urban Culture -- 3.4.resume: The Limits Of Roman Imperialism -- 4.adapting And Integrating In The Principate -- 4.1.clemency And Integration -- 4.2.roman Citi