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Rome at war : farms, families, and death in the Middle Republic /

Overturning long-held beliefs about war's impact on society in the middle Roman Republic, Nathan Rosenstein offers a new perspective on the relationship between warfare, agriculture, and families in Italy between 320 and 133 B.C." "Historians have long asserted that during and after t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Colección:Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Agriculture in Italy from Hannibal to Tiberius Gracchus
  • War and agriculture: a critique of the conventional view
  • War and the life cycles of families: three models
  • Mortality in war
  • Military mortality and agrarian crisis
  • Appendix 1. The number of Roman slaves in 168 B.C.
  • Appendix 2. The accuracy of the Roman calender before 218 B.C.
  • Appendix 3. Tenancy
  • Appendix 4. The minimum age for military service
  • Appendix 5. The proportion of Assidui in the Roman population
  • Appendix 6. The duration of military service in the second century B.C.
  • Appendix 7. The number of citizen deaths as a result of military service between 203 and 168 B.C.