The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-264 BC) (The Routledge History of the Ancient World)
'Cornell's is the most authoritative study of early Roman history to have been written by a single author since Beloch'sRomanische Geschichteof 1926.The Beginnings of Romeis an authoritative, important, and timely book from which we are all benefiting, and from which much subsequent study of early Rome will start.'-The Classical Review