Luuk de Ligt (Universiteit Leiden)

Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book re-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781107519121
• ISBN-10: 1107519128
• Artikelnr.: 42316571

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.