Structure and scale in the Roman economy:

This book by the author of The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies considers important interlocking themes. Did the Roman Empire have a single 'national' economy, or was its economy localised and fragmented? Can coin and pottery survivals demonstrate the importance of long-di...

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Beteilige Person: Duncan-Jones, Richard 1937-2024 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 1990
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552649
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552649
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552649
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552649
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552649
Zusammenfassung:This book by the author of The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies considers important interlocking themes. Did the Roman Empire have a single 'national' economy, or was its economy localised and fragmented? Can coin and pottery survivals demonstrate the importance of long-distance trade? How fast did essential news travel by sea, and what does that imply about Mediterranean sailing-patterns? Further subjects considered include taxation, commodity-prices, demography, and army pay and manpower. The book is very wide-ranging in its geographical coverage and in the evidence that it explores. By analysing specific features of the economy the contrasting discussions examine important questions about its character and limitations, and about how surviving evidence should be interpreted. The book throws new and significant light on the economic life of Europe and the Mediterranean in antiquity, and will be valuable to ancient historians and students of European economic history
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Erscheinungsjahr des E-Books: 2009
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 245 S.) graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780511552649
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511552649