Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire

In Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire seventeen specialists in the fields of Roman social history, Roman demography and Roman economic history offer fresh perspectives on voluntary, state-organised and forced mobility during the first to early third centuries CE.

About the author

Luuk de Ligt, Ph.D (1993), Free University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 (Cambridge 2012) and has published extensively on Roman economic history, Roman law and Roman demography.

Laurens E. Tacoma, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Ancient History at that university. He is the author of Fragile Hierarchies: The Urban Elites of Third Century Egypt (Leiden 2006) and has published various articles on Roman economic history and Roman social history.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9789004307360
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30736-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories