Surviving Rome : The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowes, Kim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Rome--History.

Poor.

Working class--Rome--History.

Working class.

Labor--Rome--History.

Labor.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A radical revision--and worker's-eye view--of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes.Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction: Getting Down to Work

1. Let's Settle Up

2. A World Full of Things

3. Farmer Soterichos Goes to Market

4. Eight Jobs

5. The 90 Percent and Their Money

6. The Load-Carrying Mother

7. The Bottom Line

Weights and Measures of the Roman World

Appendix 1. A World Full of Things: Consumption Data

Appendix 2. Smallholder Farms and Their Outputs

Appendix 3. Cost of Living Calculations

Appendix 4. Tebtunis grapheion, Transaction Types and Averages

Appendix 5. Human Skeletal Remains, Italy and Britain: Data and Bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-691-27335-9

OCLC:

1532834688