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.