Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
Subtitle: Essays in Social and Economic History
Contributors: Walter Scheidel (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521892902
Subjects: Economic history; Social history; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Ancient - General; Sociology - Urban; Cities and towns, Ancient--Rome; History / Ancient / General; Social Science-Sociology - Urban
First sentence: The theme of decline and fall remains irresistible to historians of the Roman Empire.