Rome's Imperial economy
Subtitle: twelve essays
By: W.V. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780199595167
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: Structures. On the applicability of the concept of class in Roman history ; Poverty and destitution in the Roman Empire; title: Slavery. Towards a study of the Roman slave trade ; Demography, geography, and the sources of Roman slaves; title: Production. Roman terracotta lamps : the organization of an industry ; Production, distribution, and instrumentum domesticum; title: 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; title: Money. A revisionist view of Roman money; title: 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.