Constructing communities in the late Roman countryside /

"This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grey, Cam, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Country life > Rome > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Country life.
Rural conditions.
Rome > Rural conditions.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: studying rural communities in the Late Roman world
  • 1. Constituting communities: peasants, families, households
  • 2. What really matters: risk, reciprocity, and reputation
  • 3. Small politics: making decisions, managing tension, mediating conflict
  • 4. Power as a competitive exercise: potentates and communities
  • 5. Resistance, negotiation, and indifference: communities and potentates
  • 6. Creating communities: taxation and collective responsibility
  • 7. Unintended consequences: taxation, power, and communal conflict
  • Conclusions.

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