Money And Government In The Roman Empire

Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521441926

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Money and Government in the Roman Empire by Richard Duncan-Jones Pdf

Rome's conquests gave her access to the accumulated metal resources of most of the known world. An abundant gold and silver coinage circulated within her empire as a result. But coinage changes later suggest difficulty in maintaining metal supplies. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, Dr Duncan-Jones uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. He constructs a new profile of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation, by analysing extensive coin evidence collected for the first time. His findings considerably advance our knowledge of crucial areas of the Roman economy.

Author : Dr Barbara Levick,Barbara Levick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134572632

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The Government of the Roman Empire by Dr Barbara Levick,Barbara Levick Pdf

This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of contemporary writers and historians. Specifically designed for students, with extensive cross-referencing, bibliographies and introductions and explanations for each item, this new edition brings the book right up-to-date, and makes it the ideal resource for students of the subject.

Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191615177

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The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans by W. V. Harris Pdf

Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy? Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but it also offers the specialist the results of original research.

Author : J. E. Lendon
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199247633

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Empire of Honour by J. E. Lendon Pdf

J. E. Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shard by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and Greek aristocrats of the empire conceived of their relative standing in terms of public esteem or honour, and conceived of their cities - toward which they felt a warm patriotism - as entities locked in a parallel struggle for primacy in honour over rivals. Emperors and provincial governors exploited these rivalries to gain the indispensable co-operation of local magnates by granting honours to individuals and their cities. Since rulers strove for honour as well, their subjects manipulated them with honours in their turn. Honour - whose workings are also traced in the Roman army - served as a way of talking and thinking about Roman government: it was both a species of power, and a way - connived in by rulers and ruled - of concealing the terrible realities of imperial rule. -- Book Cover

Author : Peter Garnsey,Richard Saller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520961302

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The Roman Empire by Peter Garnsey,Richard Saller Pdf

During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.

Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107149793

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Power and Privilege in Roman Society by Richard Duncan-Jones Pdf

Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.

Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691177946

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The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin Pdf

What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.

Author : Christopher KELLY,Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039452

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RULING THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE P by Christopher KELLY,Christopher Kelly Pdf

In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy. The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures. This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government.

Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : M. Rostovtzeff
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN : 0819621641

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The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire by M. Rostovtzeff Pdf

Author : Walter Scheidel,Ian Morris,Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521780537

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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World by Walter Scheidel,Ian Morris,Richard P. Saller Pdf

In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.

Author : Lukas de Blois,J. Rich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401624

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The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire by Lukas de Blois,J. Rich Pdf

Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affair in the regions that belonged to it, and did economic developments take their own course, independently of the Empire? Questions like these, which are of great consequence to any student of Roman history, archaeology, and Roman law, are treated in this volume, which in its successive parts focuses on: 1. The character of the Roman economy. 2. Economic life in particular regions of the Roman Empire. 3. The economy of the Later Roman Empire.

Author : George Maher
Publisher : Kilnamanagh
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781999626211

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PUGNARE: Economic Success and Failure by George Maher Pdf

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see, said Sir Winston Churchill. This fabulous book looks back across two thousand years. We imagine the Roman Empire as being a world very distant from ours, so distant that we may think we have nothing to learn from them. That however would be a mistake, as Sir Winston Churchill knew. The causes of the triumphs and disasters of our time are much the same as those of the Roman Empire. The Romans were people just like us and the wisest of their great men and women were as wise as the best of ours. Unfortunately, the most foolish of theirs were just as foolish as the worst of ours. Pugnare is the first historical account of the Roman Empire written from a practical business perspective. It is also about people, because business is about people. We can learn a lot from their behaviour, from their successes and failures.

Author : Bob Swarup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608198429

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Money Mania by Bob Swarup Pdf

Money Mania is a sweeping account of financial speculation and its consequences, from ancient Rome to the Meltdown of 2008. Acclaimed journalist and investor Bob Swarup tracks the history of speculative fevers caused by the appearance of new profitable investment opportunities; the new assets created and the increasing self-congratulatory euphoria that drives them to unsustainable highs, all fed by an illusion of insight and newly minted experts; the unexpected catalysts that eventually lead to panic; the inevitable crash as investors scramble to withdraw their funds from the original market and any other that might resemble it; and finally, the brevity of financial memory that allows us to repeat the cycle without ever critically evaluating the drivers of this endless cycle. In short, it is the story of what makes us human.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : HMH
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780547527079

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Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy Pdf

What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows