Demography of Roman Egypt

Zusammenfassung This book reconstructs the demographic regime in Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD! using as its main evidence the three hundred surviving census returns filed by ordinary declarants. The authors use modern demographic methods and models to reconstruct the patterns of mortality! marriage! fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Ansley J. Coale;1. The census returns; 2. The census returns as demographic evidence; 3. Households; 4. Female life expectancy; 5. Male life expectancy and the sex ratio; 6. Marriage; 7. Fertility; 8. Migration; 9. Conclusions; Catalogue of Census declarations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Roger S. Bagnall, Roger S. (Columbia University Bagnall, Roger S. Frier Bagnall, Bruce W. Frier
• Assisted by: Richard Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025966
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02596-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics