People, land, and politics : demographic developments and the transformation of Roman Italy 300 BC-AD 14 / edited by Luuk de Ligt and Simon Northwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ligt, L. de.

Northwood, Simon.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 303.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demography--Rome.

Demography.

Population.

Rome--Population.

Rome.

Rural population--Rome.

Rural population.

City dwellers--Rome.

City dwellers.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Summary:

Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically. This volume offers a series of in-depth discussions not only of the republican manpower and census figures but also of the abundant archaeological data. It also explores the growth of cities, especially Rome, and the changing distribution of the population over the Italian landscape. On the rural side it addresses the interplay between demographic, economic, and legal developments and the background to the Gracchan land reforms. Finally it examines the political implications of demographic growth and large-scale migration to the provinces. The volume as a whole demonstrates that demography is the key to many aspects of Italy's economic, social, military, and political history.

Contents:

I Demography

Roman Population Size: The Logic of the Debate / Walter Scheidel 17

The Much Maligned Peasant. Comparative Perspectives on the Productivity of the Small Farmer in Classical Antiquity / J. Geoffrey Kron 71

Urbanisation and Development in Italy in the Late Republic / Neville Morley 121

The Population of Cisalpine Gaul in the Time of Augustus / Luuk de Ligt 139

II Census Figures and Population

Counting Romans / Saskia Hin 187

Roman Census Figures in the Second Century BC and the Property Qualification of the Fifth Class / Elio Lo Cascio 239

Census and Tributum / Simon Northwood 257

III Survey Archaeology and Demography

Regional Field Survey and the Demography of Roman Italy / Robert Witcher 273

Poor Peasants and Silent Sherds / Dominic Rathbone 305

Settlement Organization and Land Distribution in Latin Colonies Before the Second Punic War / Jeremia Pelgrom 333

Polybius and the Field Survey Evidence from Apulia / Douwe Yntema 373

Lucanian Landscapes in the Age of 'Romanization' (Third to First Centuries BC): Two Case Studies / Maurizio Gualtieri 387

IV Allied Manpower and Migration

Mobility and Migration in Italy in the Second Century BC / Paul Erdkamp 417

Migration and Hegemony: Fixity and Mobility in Second-Century Italy / Will Broadhead 451

The Gracchi, the Latins, and the Italian Allies / Henrik Mouritsen 471

V Ager Publicus

The Gracchan Reform and Appian's Representation of an Agrarian Crisis / Daniel J. Gargola 487

Lex Licinia, Lex Sempronia: B.G. Niebuhr and the Limitation of Landholding in the Roman Republic / John Rich 519

Regional Variations in the Use of the Ager Publicus / Saskia T. Roselaar 573

VI Demography and the End of the Republic

Revolution and Rebellion in the Later Second and Early First Centuries BC: Jack Goldstone and the 'Roman Revolution' / Nathan Rosenstein 605

States Waiting in the Wings: Population Distribution and the End of the Roman Republic / Michael Crawford 631.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004171183

9004171185

OCLC:

237048059