In this book, Alessandro Sebastiani examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity. Using Rome as his case study, he explores

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously un

Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades,