Hispania: una historia De España antes España: Tarteso al fin del dominio romano en la península ibérica (siglos VIII a. C.-V d. C.)

How did societies on the Iberian Peninsula form before the arrival of Rome? What role did the Phoenicians and Greeks play in this corner of the Mediterranean? How did the long Roman conquest unfold, and what were its consequences? In *Hispania*, Santiago Castellanos traces more than 1,500 years of history, from the earliest colonizations to the end of Roman rule. The journey begins with Tartessos and the Phoenician and Greek presence, pauses to examine the diversity of the Iberian and Indo-European peoples, and follows Rome's advance--a slow, complex, and nuanced process. As the conquest progresses, the narrative shows how these territories were gradually incorporated into the Roman world. The creation of provinces, the development of cities, the establishment of new legal and administrative systems, and the transformation of economic life allow us to understand what it meant, in concrete terms, to become part of Rome. From the crisis of the Republic through the High Empire to the Late Roman period, Hispania offers a comprehensive overview that situates these major changes without losing sight of the societies that shaped them. A journey through a long and changing era in which these lands evolved from a Mediterranean frontier into part of one of the great political systems of Antiquity.