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Patterson presents a social and economic history of Italy during the first and second centures AD, focusing upon central and southern Italy. He offers a nuanced view of Italy's transformation, emphasising and analysing local diversity...Given that a large proportion of this has been published in Italian and almost all of it in comparatively obscure or expensive scholarly publications, his book makes accessible recent work on the peninsula's towns and landscape. Alison E. Cooley, The Journal of Classics Teaching An important contribution to the historiography of the Italian peninsula in antiquity... [it] will take a central position in the scholarly debate during the upcoming years and hence deserves a place in any decent university library. Miko Flohr, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...[an] ambitious and stimulating book...a wide-ranging and persuasive contribution of importance for all those working on imperial Italy Robert Witcher, Journal of Roman Studies

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John R. Patterson is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge.

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