Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity essays in social and economic history

Abstract

Part I. Cities: 1. Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire 2. Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate 3. Economy and society of Mediolanum under the Principate 4. Urban property investment in Roman society 5. An association of builders in late antique Sardis Part II. Peasants: 6. Peasants in ancient Roman society 7. Where did Italian peasants live? 8. Non-slave labour in the Roman world 9. Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire 10. Mountain economies in southern Europe Part III. Food: 11. Grain for Athens 12. The yield of the land in ancient Greece 13. The bean: substance and symbol 14. Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome 15. Child rearing in ancient Italy 16. Famine in history.

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Peter Garnsey, Walter Scheidel (1998). Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity essays in social and economic history.

@article{peter1998cities,
  title  = {Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity essays in social and economic history},
  author = {Garnsey, Peter and Scheidel, Walter},
  year   = {1998}
}

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