This is a comprehensive treatment of the period that reconstructs the interacting development of the early Italian peoples as a story in its own right, marshalling archaeological, linguistic and ethnographic evidence as support. The book gives an account of the early stages in the eternal dialogue between national vocation and local diversity. The author has also written "The Etruscans", and has won the Balzan Prize (1982) and the Erasmus Award (1984).
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This is a comprehensive treatment of the period that reconstructs the interacting development of the early Italian peoples as a story in its own right, marshalling archaeological, linguistic and ethnographic evidence as support. The book gives an account of the early stages in the eternal dialogue between national vocation and local diversity. The author has also written "The Etruscans", and has won the Balzan Prize (1982) and the Erasmus Award (1984).
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0472100971. Text clean and solid; some wear to dust jacket; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 9.75 X 6.50 X 0.75 inches; 224 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0472100971. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). 1 corner lightly bumped. Slight spine slant. Minor creasing to DJ.; A study of pre-Roman peoples from the Bronze Age to the unification of the Italian peninsula and Sicily by Rome; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures 17; 9.8 X 6.5 X 0.8 inches; 224 pages.
