Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers - Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 Bc-Ad 100

Informationen zum Autor Luuk De Ligt is Professor of Ancient History at Universiteit Leiden. His book Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire (1993) continues to be cited as a standard work on the rural economy of the Roman world. He has also published widely on the interplay between legal and economic developments with edited volumes including People, Land and Politics: Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC–AD 14 (2008), which has been greeted as a compulsory starting point for all those aspiring to understand the demographic, economic, social and political structures of Roman Republican Italy. Klappentext This book re-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history. Zusammenfassung Aimed at ancient historians and archaeologists! this book argues that Republican Rome had a unique demographic system which made it possible for it to recover quickly from large-scale losses of manpower and that the establishment of the pax Romana resulted in fast population growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Evidence, theories and models in Roman population history; 2. The Polybian manpower figures and the size of the Italian population on the eve of the Hannibalic War; 3. Census procedures and the meaning of the republican and early-imperial census figures; 4. Peasants, citizens and soldiers, 201 BC-28 BC; 5. The Augustan census figures and Italy's urban network; 6. Survey archaeology and demographic developments in the Italian countryside.

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• Authors: Luuk De Ligt, Luuk (Universiteit Leiden) De Ligt, de Ligt Luuk, L. de Ligt, Luuk de Ligt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107013186
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01318-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Population & demography, Population and Demography, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory