Research Catalog

Title

Rome's Imperial economy : twelve essays / W.V. Harris.

Author

Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Publication

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 370 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of pre-modern economies? This book includes chapters on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of poverty and destitution provides a fresh perspective on the question of the Roman Empire's economic performance, and a substantial introduction ties the collection together.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• Rome > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Structures. On the applicability of the concept of class in Roman history ; Poverty and destitution in the Roman Empire -- Slavery. Towards a study of the Roman slave trade ; Demography, geography, and the sources of Roman slaves -- Production. Roman terracotta lamps : the organization of an industry ; Production, distribution, and instrumentum domesticum -- Trade. Trade [70-192 AD] ; Trade and the river Po : a problem in the economic history of the Roman Empire ; Roman governments and commerce, 300 BC-AD 300 -- Money. A revisionist view of Roman money -- Overviews. The Roman economy in the Late Republic, 133-31 BC ; Between archaic and modern : some current problems in the economic history of the High Roman Empire.

ISBN

• 9780199595167 (hbk.)
• 019959516X (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2010943332

OCLC

• 656767749
• SCSB-12128181

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library