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Peasants, citizens and soldiers : studies in the demographic history of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 /
"Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are military participation rates, demographic recovery after the Second Punic War, the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms, the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War, emigration from Italy and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 391 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-381) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139003834 1139003836 9781107314160 110731416X 9781299257214 1299257216 9781107306417 1107306418 1107234883 9781107234888 1107301335 9781107301337 1107519128 9781107519121 1107305543 9781107305540 1107308615 9781107308619 |