An informative and user-friendly collection of primary sources on the early history of Italy from the early expansion of Roman power to the first emergence of Italy as a unified cultural and political unit. The sources - all here in translation - cover the Roman conquest, the mechanisms of government and the process of Romanization; they include inscriptions, coins and archaeological evidence as well as texts. Complete with introduction and explanatory notes, the volume should prove useful to those studying the studying the Roman world. Kathryn Lomas