The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198788522)

This volume is a collection of studies which presents new analyses of the nature and scale of Roman agriculture in the Mediterranean world from c. 100 BC to AD 350. It provides a clear understanding of the fundamental features of Roman agricultural production through studying the documentary and archaeological evidence for the modes of land exploitation and the organization, development of, and investment in this sector of the Roman economy.

Moving substantially beyond the simple assumption that agriculture was the dominant sector of the ancient economy, the volume explores what was special and distinctive about it, especially with a view of its development and integration during a period of expansion and prosperity across the empire. The papers exemplify a range of possible approaches to studying and, within limits, quantifying aspects of Roman agricultural production, marshalling a large quantity of evidence, chiefly archaeological and papyrological, to address important questions of the organization and performance of this sector in the Roman world.

Author: Alan Bowman
ISBN-10: 0198788525
ISBN-13: 9780198788522
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/25/2018
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d