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Title The economic integration of Roman Italy : rural communities in a globalising world / edited by T.C.A. de Haas, G.W. Tol.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, [2017]
2017

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Description 1 online resource (532 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
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Series Mnemosyne supplements ; 404
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 404.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Gijs Tol and Tymon de Haas -- The economic, social and geographic context -- The benefits of market integration : five centuries of prosperity in Roman Italy / Willem Jongman -- The global roman countryside : connectivity and community / Robert Witcher -- The geography of Roman Italy and its implications for the development of rural economies / Tymon de Haas -- Arable production and society -- Something old, something new : social and economic developments in the countryside of Roman Italy between republic and empire / Alessandro Launaro -- The diversification and intensification of Italian agriculture : the complementary roles of the small and wealthy farmer / Geoffrey Kron -- Modelling crop-selection in Roman Italy : the economics of agricultural decision making in a globalizing economy / Frits Heinrich -- Peasant agricultural strategies in southern Tuscany : convertible agriculture and the importance of pasture / Kim Bowes, Anna Maria Mercuri, Eleonora Rattigheri, Rossella Rinaldi, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Mariaelena Ghisleni, Cam Grey, Michael MacKinnon and Emanuele Vaccaro -- Rural crafts -- Issues in the study of rural craft production in Roman Italy / J. Theodore Pena -- Italic sigillata production and trade in rural central Italy : new data from the project "excavating the Roman peasant" / Emanuele Vaccaro, Claudio Capelli and Mariaelena Ghisleni -- Crafts and trade in minor settlements in north and central Italy : reflections on an ongoing research project / Sara Santoro -- Commercialisation -- Wine and amphorae in campania in the hellenistic age : the case of Ischia / Gloria Olcese -- Rural, urban and suburban communities and their economic interconnectivity in coastal north Etruria (2nd century BC-2nd century AD) / Marinella Pasquinucci and Simonetta Menchelli -- The role of overseas export and local consumption demand in the development of viticulture in central-Adriatic Italy (200 BC-AD 150) : the case of the Ager Potentinus and the wider Potenza Valley / Dimitri Van Limbergen, Patrick Monsieur and Frank Vermeulen -- From surface find to consumption trend : a ceramic perspective on the economic history of the Pontine Region (Lazio, central Italy) in the Roman period / Gijs Tol -- Wood and charcoal for Rome: towards an understanding of ancient regional fuel economics / Robyn Veal -- Where were the coins we find actually used? / Michael Crawford -- Conclusions -- Roman economic practice across time and space : an outside perspective / Gary M. Feinman -- Landscape archaeology in Italy : past questions, current state and future directions / Peter Attema -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Italy -- Economic conditions -- To 476.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Haas, Tymon C. A. de, 1979- editor.
Tol, Gijs Willem, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Economic integration of Roman Italy : rural communities in a globalising world. Boston : Brill, [2017] Mnemosyne supplements ; 404 9789004325906 (DLC)19710687
ISBN 9789004325906 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004345027 (e-book)

 
    
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