... Roselaar has succeeded in writing a truly thought-provoking book, which fits nicely into a growing trend of reappraisal of the agency of non-Romans in the formative years of the Roman State.
Saskia T. Roselaar obtained her PhD from Leiden University in 2009 and has worked as a Newton International Fellow at the University of Manchester and as a Nottingham Advanced Research Fellow. Her 2010 book Public Land in the Roman Republic: A Social and Economic History of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396-89 BC (Oxford University Press) was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize and the Premio Speciale della Corte Costituzionale della Repubblica
Italiana. Her research interests cover the social, economic, and legal history of the Roman Republic, as well as issues of citizenship and integration in the Roman world in general.