Farmers And Agriculture In The Roman Economy

Author : David B. Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351596411

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Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy by David B. Hollander Pdf

Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from smallholders to the owners of large estates – bought and sold, lent and borrowed, and cooperated as well as competed in the Roman economy. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on, and exposure to, macroeconomic phenomena such as monetization and changes in the level and nature of demand for goods and labor. After considering the demographic and environmental context of Italian agriculture, the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmers’ economic decisions? This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy.

Author : Alan Bowman,Andrew Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199665723

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The Roman Agricultural Economy by Alan Bowman,Andrew Wilson Pdf

This collection presents new analyses for the nature and scale of Roman agriculture. It outlines the fundamental features of agricultural production through studying the documentary and archaeological evidence for the modes of land exploitation and the organisation, development of, and investment in this sector.

Author : David Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472429516

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Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy by David Hollander Pdf

Roman farmers depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services from metal tools to medical expertise but their role in the ancient economy is poorly understood. Though historians no longer assume Roman farmers strived for self-sufficiency, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary, archaeological, and comparative evidence to examine how farmers âe" from smallholders to the owners of large estates âe"bought and sold goods and services, lent and borrowed money, and cooperated or competed with one another. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on (and exposure to) macroeconomic phenomena such as inflation and changes in the supply and circulation of money. After considering the environmental and demographic context of Italian agriculture, the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmersâe(tm) economic decisions. This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy.

Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472115820

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Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire by Dennis P. Kehoe Pdf

A bold application of economic theory to help provide an understanding of the role that law played in the development of the Roman economy

Author : David B. Hollander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047419129

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Money in the Late Roman Republic by David B. Hollander Pdf

Like coinage, bullion, financial instruments and a variety of commodities played an important role in Rome's monetary system. This book examines how the availability of such assets affected the demand for coinage and the development of the late Republican economy.

Author : Paul Erdkamp,Koenraad Verboven,Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191044731

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Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World by Paul Erdkamp,Koenraad Verboven,Arjan Zuiderhoek Pdf

Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early modern period. This volume focuses on how the institutional structure of the Roman Empire affected economic performance both positively and negatively. An international range of contributors offers a variety of approaches that together enhance our understanding of how different ownership rights and various modes of organization and exploitation facilitated or prevented the use of land and natural resources in the production process. Relying on a large array of resources - literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological - chapters address key questions regarding the foundations of the Roman Empire's economic system. Questions of growth, concentration and legal status of property (private, public, or imperial), the role of the state, content and limitations of rights of ownership, water rights and management, exploitation of indigenous populations, and many more receive new and original analyses that make this book a significant step forward to understanding what made the economic achievements of the Roman empire possible.

Author : David J. Mattingly,John Salmon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134615544

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Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World by David J. Mattingly,John Salmon Pdf

This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the period.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521898225

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy by Walter Scheidel Pdf

Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.

Author : Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1108818773

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The Socio-economics of Roman Storage by Astrid Van Oyen Pdf

"In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio- Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage; storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the links between the scales of farmer and state"--

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139447683

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The Grain Market in the Roman Empire by Paul Erdkamp Pdf

This book explores the economic, social and political forces that shaped the grain market in the Roman Empire. Examining studies on food supply and the grain market in pre-industrial Europe, it addresses questions of productivity, division of labour, market relations and market integration. The social and political aspects of the Roman grain market are also considered. Dr Erdkamp illustrates how entitlement to food in Roman society was dependent on relations with the emperor, his representatives and the landowning aristocracy, and local rulers controlling the towns and hinterlands. He assesses the response of the Roman authorities to weaknesses in the grain market and looks at the implications of the failure of local harvests. By examining the subject from a contemporary perspective, this book will appeal not only to historians of ancient economies, but to all concerned with the economy of grain markets, a subject which still resonates today.

Author : Alan Bowman,Andrew Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191570049

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Quantifying the Roman Economy by Alan Bowman,Andrew Wilson Pdf

This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created the conditions for the integration of agriculture, production, trade, and commerce across the regions of the empire. Using the evidence of both documents and archaeology, the contributors suggest how we can derive a quantified account of economic growth and contraction in the period of the empire's greatest extent and prosperity.

Author : K. D. White
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002810342

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Roman Farming by K. D. White Pdf

Author : Tymon C.A. de Haas,Gijs Tol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004345027

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The Economic Integration of Roman Italy by Tymon C.A. de Haas,Gijs Tol Pdf

The papers in The Economic Integration of Roman Italy use various archaeological data, particularly recent field survey and excavation data, to explore the changes Rome’s territorial and economic expansion brought about in the Italian countryside.

Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : Vandehoeck & Rupprecht
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Administration of estates
ISBN : 3525251882

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The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa by Dennis P. Kehoe Pdf

Author : Jesper Carlsen
Publisher : L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8891302813

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Land and Labour by Jesper Carlsen Pdf

Modern scholarship dealing with the economy of the ancient world has developed rapidly in recent decades. Studies of ancient economic structures and history have in many respects achieve standards as a discipline comparable to those of economic history, using models and scenarios exactly as it is frequently seen in studies of later periods with better sources. The best example is perhaps the historical demography of Roman Italy. It was a marginal field of research until the early 1990s, but is now one of the key subjects in the study of Roman economy with a lively debate between the followers of a low count reconstruction of the demographic development in Roman Italy versus the scholars who favour a high count. Furthermore, quantitative studies have become serious scholarship and are no longer despised as only number games' as is apparent, for instance, from the new Oxford Roman Economy Project.' This is due to the great amount of published archaeological material such as terra sigillata, amphorae and shipwrecks. It is also illustrated by the shift from the predominant orthodoxy of the primitivism in the 1970s and 1980s to theoretical and methodological orientations inspired by the so-called New Institutional Economics and a diversity of approaches. But it has also rightly been pointed out that the struggle between primitivists' and modernists' , which still, a century later, continues to haunt scholarly discussions, often under the revealing name of minimalists and maximalists, signifying that the problem has often wrongly been reduced to one of quantities, mainly of trade. All the chapters of this book were originally published as articles or contributions to proceedings of different conferences between 1990 and 2010.