Stephen L. Dyson is Park Professor of Classics at the State University of New York, Buffalo and SUNY Distinguished Professor. His research interests focus on the history of the city of Rome and the archaeology of Roman Italy and its Empire. He is former President of the Classical Association of the American Academy in Rome and past President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and has written a number of titles including Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City (2010).

• Introduction; 1. Rome in the eighteenth century; 2. French intervention and papal reaction; 3. Archaeology and urbanism in the waning days of papal Rome; 4. Archaeology and urbanism in Rome during the early decades of the national state; 5. Development and archaeology in Roma Capitale; 6. Museums, markets, and display in the New Rome; 7. Archaeology and urbanism in fascist Rome; 8. Mostras and museums in fascist Rome; 9. Quietism, conformity and chaos: urbanism and archaeology in the 1950s and 1960s; 10. A new generation, a new politics, and a new archaeology; 11. The end of an era: the Giubileo, the Ara Pacis, and the twilight of the heirs of Bianchi Bandinelli; 12. Afterword; Bibliography.

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