Introduction: integration and identity in the Roman Republic / Saskia -- T. Roselaar -- Regionalism: towards a new perspective of cultural -- Change in central Italy, c. 350-100 BC / Roman Roth -- The beginning of the first Punic War and the concept of Italia / Federico Russo -- Identity construction and boundaries: hellenistic Perugia / Skylar Neil -- Reconsidering socii in Roman Armies before the Punic Wars / Patrick Kent -- Integration and Armies in the Middle Republic / Nathan S. Rosenstein -- Appian, allied ambassadors, and the rejection of 91: why the Romans chose to fight the bellum sociale / Seth Kendall -- The Lex Licinia Mucia and the Bellum Italicum / Fiona Tweedie -- Mediterranean trade as a mechanism of integration between Romans and Italians / Saskia T. Roselaar -- Outposts of Integration? Garrisoning, Logistics and Archaeology in North-Eastern Hispania, 133-82 BC / Toni Naco del Hoyo & Jordi Principal -- Samnite economy and the competitive environment of Italy in the fifth to third centuries BC / Daniel C. Hoyer -- The Weakest Link: elite social networks in Republican Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Contact, Co-operation, and Conflict in Pre-Social War Italy / John R. Patterson -- Rome and Antium: Pirates, Polities and identity in the Middle Republic / Ed H. Bispham -- A localized approach to the study of integration and identity in southern Italy / Elizabeth C. Robinson -- Settlement structures and institutional 'Continuity' in Capua until the Deductio Coloniaria of 59 BC / Osvaldo Sacchi -- Integration, Identity, and Language Shift: Strengths and Weaknesses of the 'Linguistic' Evidence / David Langslow -- Problems and audience in Cato's Origines / Eleanor Jefferson -- Juno Sospita: A Foreign Goddess through Roman Eyes / Rianne Hermans -- Feronia. The role of an italic goddess in the process of cultural integration in Republican Italy / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: The Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity / Elisabeth Buchet.