Peasants and Slaves - The Rural Population of Roman Italy (200 Bc to Ad 100)

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Launaro is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. He has taken part in surveys and excavations in Liguria, Tuscany and Marche, and is currently researching the relationship between population dynamics, rural settlement patterns and agrarian economic regimes across Roman Italy. Klappentext A radical interdisciplinary reappraisal of the agrarian background to the political events which shaped Rome during the Late Republic. Zusammenfassung A radical interdisciplinary reappraisal of the agrarian background to the political events which shaped the destiny of Rome (from Republic to Empire). The book actively builds upon the textual and archaeological evidence to trace the fate of the Italian rural free population during a crucial period of its history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. An Outline of the Historical Demography of Roman Italy: 1. The Italian population under Augustus; 2. Competing arguments and relevant implications; Part II. Demography and Landscape Archaeology: Towards an Integration: 3. Absolute figures and relative trends; 4. A comparison of relevant trends; Part III. Archaeological Evidence from Surveys: 5. Site trends across Roman Italy; Part IV. The Rural Population of Roman Italy (200 BC-AD 100): 6. Settlement and demography; 7. A view of the countryside; Appendix. Survey projects database.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Launaro, Alessandro (Darwin College Launaro, Launaro Alessandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9781107004795
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00479-5
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology