Migration and mobility in the early Roman Empire / edited by Luuk de Ligt, Laurens E. Tacoma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ligt, L. de, editor.

Tacoma, Laurens Ernst, 1967- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; v. 23.

Studies in global migration history ; v. 7.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 23

Studies in global migration history ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Rome--History.

Migration, Internal.

Rural-urban migration--Rome--History.

Rural-urban migration.

Labor mobility--Rome--History.

Labor mobility.

Forced migration--Rome--History.

Forced migration.

Rome--Army--History.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Armies.

History.

Deployment (Strategy)--Government policy--Rome.

Deployment (Strategy).

Residential mobility--Rome--History.

Residential mobility.

Armed Forces.

Deployment (Strategy)--Government policy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 517 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

"Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility. Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth Bernard, Christer Bruun, Luuk de Ligt, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy Prowse, Saskia Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Approaching migration in the early Roman Empire / Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma

The impact of migration on the demographic profile of the City of Rome : a reassessment / Elio Lo Cascio

Seasonal labour and rural-urban migration in Roman Italy / Paul Erdkamp

Food distributions and immigration in Imperial Rome / Seth G. Bernard

Migration in early-Imperial Italy : Herculaneum and Rome compared / Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt

Labour mobility in the Roman world : a case study of mines in Iberia / Claire Holleran

State-organised mobility in the Roman Empire : legionaries and auxiliaries / Saskia T. Roselaaar

Peasants into soldiers : recruitment and military mobility in the early Roman Empire / Tatiana Ivleva

Tracing familial mobility : female and child migrants in the Roman West / Christer Bruun

Isotopes and mobility in the ancient Roman world / Tracy L. Prowse

Revisiting urban graveyard theory : migrant flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens / Saskia Hin

Migration in Roman Egypt : problems and possibilities / Colin Adams

Migrant women in p.oxy. and the port cities of Roman Egypt : tracing women's travel behaviour in papyrological sources / Lien Foubert

Human mobility in the Roman Near East : patterns and motives / Andrea Zerbini

Moving epigrams : migration and mobility in the Greek East / Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf A. Tybout

Dead men walking : the repatriation of mortal remains / Rolf A. Tybout

Movers and stayers / Greg Woolf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Migration and mobility in the early Roman Empire.

ISBN:

9789004307360

9004307362

OCLC:

929863268

Publisher Number:

99966939684