Socio-Economics of Roman Storage - Agriculture, Trade, and Family

In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire?

About the author

Astrid Van Oyen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Cornell University. A recipient of fellowships and grants from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Stanford Humanities Center, she is the author of How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery and co-editor, with Martin Pitts, of Materialising Roman Histories.

Summary

This is the first archaeological study to approach the central problem of storage in the Roman world holistically, across contexts and datasets, of interest to students and scholars of Roman archaeology and history and to anthropologists keen to link the scales of farmer and state.

Product details

• Authors: Astrid (Cornell University van Oyen, Astrid Van Oyen, Astrid Van Oyen, Astrid (Cornell University Van Oyen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108495530
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49553-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology