The Roman Agricultural Economy : Organization, Investment, and Production Hardback
Edited by Alan (Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents) Bowman, Andrew (Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford) Wilson
Part of the Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy series
Hardback
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This volume is a collection of studies which presents new analyses of the nature and scale of Roman agriculture in the Mediterranean world from c. 100 BC to AD 350. It provides a clear understanding of the fundamental features of Roman agricultural production through studying the documentary and archaeological evidence for the modes of land exploitation and the organisation, development of, and investment in this sector of the Roman economy.
Moving substantially beyond the simple assumption that agriculture was the dominant sector of the ancient economy, the volume explores what was special and distinctive about it, especially with a view of its development and integration during a period of expansion and prosperity across the empire.
The papers exemplify a range of possible approaches to studying and, within limits, quantifying aspects of Roman agricultural production, marshalling a large quantity of evidence, chiefly archaeological and papyrological, to address important questions of the organisation and performance of this sector in the Roman world.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, 103 in-text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2013
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- ISBN:9780199665723
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, 103 in-text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199665723
