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University of California Press [Published Date: 1987]. Hardcover, 240 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue textured Paper over Boards with gold lettering on spine. Light scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. With 80 black and white and 12 color illustrations.[From front jacket flap] Italy is immensely rich in Roman remains, but it is the spectacular sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum. Ostia and Rome that have tended to dominate the picture. Now recent archaeological discoveries and fieldwork have made it possible to examine Roman Italy as a whole. Drawing upon the wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources, Dr Potter traces the fortunes of an Italy unified under Rome to the decline of the Empire in late antiquity. This new and lively approach, emphasizing the remains which may still be seen, will be vital reading to students of Roman history and archaeology, but also to lovers of Italy.