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Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity : Essays in Social and Economic History Paperback / softback
by Peter (University of Cambridge) Garnsey
Edited by Walter Scheidel
Paperback / softback
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Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together.
Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis.
While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science.
A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages, 5 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780521892902
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages, 5 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521892902