Rome's imperial economy : twelve essays / W.V. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Economic conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 370 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

An assessment of the economic success of Imperial Rome, consisting of eleven previously published papers by the historian W. V. Harris, with additional comments to bring them up to date. Harris also includes a new study of poverty and destitution, and a substantial introduction which ties the collection together.

Contents:

Structures. On the applicability of the concept of class in Roman history ; Poverty and destitution in the Roman Empire

Slavery. Towards a study of the Roman slave trade ; Demography, geography, and the sources of Roman slaves

Production. Roman terracotta lamps : the organization of an industry ; Production, distribution, and instrumentum domesticum

Trade. Trade [70-192 AD] ; Trade and the river Po : a problem in the economic history of the Roman Empire ; Roman governments and commerce, 300 BC-AD 300

Money. A revisionist view of Roman money

Overviews. The Roman economy in the Late Republic, 133-31 BC ; Between archaic and modern : some current problems in the economic history of the High Roman Empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0191616494

9780191616495

OCLC:

746747089