Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity essays in social and economic history

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garnsey, Peter (-)
Otros Autores: Scheidel, Walter, 1966-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1998.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39712357*spi
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  • Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire
  • Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate
  • Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate
  • Urban property investment in Roman society
  • An association of builders in late antique Sardis
  • Peasants in ancient Roman society
  • Where did Italian peasants live?
  • Non-slave labour in the Roman world.
  • Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire
  • Mountain economies in southern Europe
  • Grain for Athens
  • The yield of the land in ancient Greece
  • The bean: substance and symbol
  • Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome
  • Child rearing in ancient Italy
  • Famine in history.