Can I read Land and Labour: Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Saggi Di Storia Antica) on EtoBox?

Land and Labour: Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Saggi Di Storia Antica) by Jesper Carlsen [Carlsen, Jesper] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Land and Labour: Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Saggi Di Storia Antica) about?

Modern scholarship dealing with the economy of the ancient world has developed rapidly in recent decades. Studies of ancient economic structures and history have in many respects achieve standards as a discipline comparable to those of economic history, using models and scenarios exactly as it is frequently seen in studies of later periods with better sources. The best example is perhaps the historical demography of Roman Italy. It was a marginal field of research until the early 1990s, but is now one of the key subjects in the study of Roman economy with a lively debate between the followers of a low count reconstruction of the demographic development in Roman Italy versus the scholars who favour a high count. Furthermore, quantitative studies have become serious scholarship and are no longer despised as only number games' as is apparent, for instance, from the new Oxford Roman Economy Project.' This is due to the great amount of published archaeological material such as terra sigillata, amphorae and shipwrecks. It is also illustrated by the shift from the predominant orthodoxy of the primitivism in the 1970s and 1980s to theoretical and methodological orientations inspired by the

Who reads Land and Labour: Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Saggi Di Storia Antica)?

Author

Jesper Carlsen [Carlsen, Jesper]

Publisher

"L' Erma" di Bretscheneider

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9788891302816

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Business