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Rome's Imperial Economy : Twelve Essays.

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? In this volume W.V. Harris brings together eleven previously published papers on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, W. V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.