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Structure and scale in the Roman economy / Richard Duncan-Jones.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan-Jones, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rome--Economic conditions.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I: Time and Distance ; Communication-speed and contact by sea in the Roman empire ; Trade, taxes and money ; Separation and cohesion in Mediterranean trade ; Stability and change
- Part II: Demography and Manpower ; Age-awareness in the Roman world ; Roman life-expectancy ; Pay and numbers in Diocletian's army
- Part III: Agrarian Patterns ; Land and landed wealth ; The price of wheat in Roman Egypt
- Part IV: The World of Cities ; The social cost of urbanisation ; Who paid for public building?
- Part V: Tax-Payment and Tax-Assessment ; Taxation in money and taxation in kind ; Land, taxes and labour: implications of the iugum.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780511552649
- 0511552645
- Publisher Number:
- 99983999871
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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