ISBN:
9004171185
,
9789004171183
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 654 p)
,
ill., maps
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne supplements v. 303
Series Statement:
History and archaeology of classical antiquity
Parallel Title:
Print version People, Land, and Politics : Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC-AD 14
DDC:
304.60937/09014
Keywords:
City dwellers
;
Demography
;
Rural population
;
Rome Population
;
Rome History Empire, 284-476
Abstract:
Drawing on a variety of literary and archaeological data, this book explores the implications of competing reconstructions of Italy's demographic history during the Middle and Late Republic. It focuses on Italy's economic, social, military, and political history during this crucial period
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Introduction; I DEMOGRAPHY; Roman Population Size: The Logic of the Debate (Walter Scheidel); The Much Maligned Peasant. Comparative Perspectives on the Productivity of the Small Farmer in Classical Antiquity (J. Geoffrey Kron); Urbanisation and Development in Italy in the Late Republic (Neville Morley); The Population of Cisalpine Gaul in the Time of Augustus (Luuk de Ligt); II CENSUS FIGURES AND POPULATION; Counting Romans (Saskia Hin); Roman Census Figures in the Second Century BC and the Property Qualifi cation of the Fifth Class (Elio Lo Cascio)
Description / Table of Contents:
Census and Tributum (Simon Northwood)III SURVEY ARCHAEOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY; Regional Field Survey and the Demography of Roman Italy (Robert Witcher); Poor Peasants and Silent Sherds (Dominic Rathbone); Settlement Organization and Land Distribution in Latin Colonies Before the Second Punic War (Jeremia Pelgrom); Polybius and the Field Survey Evidence from Apulia (Douwe Yntema); Lucanian Landscapes in the Age of 'Romanization' (Third to First Centuries BC): Two Case Studies (Maurizio Gualtieri); IV ALLIED MANPOWER AND MIGRATION
Description / Table of Contents:
Mobility and Migration in Italy in the Second Century BC (Paul Erdkamp)Migration and Hegemony: Fixity and Mobility in Second-Century Italy (Will Broadhead); The Gracchi, the Latins, and the Italian Allies (Henrik Mouritsen); V AGER PUBLICUS; The Gracchan Reform and Appian's Representation of an Agrarian Crisis (Daniel J. Gargola); Lex Licinia, Lex Sempronia: B.G. Niebuhr and the Limitation of Landholding in the Roman Republic (John Rich); Regional Variations in the Use of the Ager Publicus (Saskia T. Roselaar); V IDEMOGRAPHY AND THE END OF THE REPUBLIC
Description / Table of Contents:
Revolution and Rebellion in the Later Second and Early First Centuries BC: Jack Goldstone and the 'Roman Revolution' (Nathan Rosenstein)States Waiting in the Wings: Population Distribution and the End of the Roman Republic (Michael Crawford); Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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