W V Harris

Rome's Imperial Economy

Twelve Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An assessment of the economic success of Imperial Rome, consisting of eleven previously published papers by the historian W. V. Harris, with additional comments to bring them up to date. Harris also includes a new study of poverty and destitution, and a substantial introduction which ties the collection together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780199595167
• ISBN-10: 019959516X
• Artikelnr.: 32729908

Autorenporträt

W. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: On the Applicability of the Concept of Class in Roman History
* 2: Poverty and Destitution in the Roman Empire
* 3: Towards a Study of the Roman Slave Trade
* 4: Geography, Demography and the Sources of Roman Slaves
* 5: Roman Terracotta Lamps: The Organization of an Industry
* 6: Production, Distribution, and instrumentum domesticum
* IV. Trade
* 7: Trade (70-192 AD)
* 8: Trade and the River Po: A Problem in the Economic History of the
Roman Empire
* 9: Roman Governments and Commerce, 300 BC-AD 300
* 10: A Revisionist View of Roman Money
* 11: The Roman Economy in the Late Republic, 133 to 31 BC
* 12: Between Archaic and Modern: Some Current Problems in the Economic
History of the High Roman Empire