Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities in Italy and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities in Italy and Beyond write by Frank Vermeulen. This book was released on 2021-05-26. Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities in Italy and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes tell us about the nature of the Roman economy? These are the central questions addressed in this volume. While there exist many studies of Roman urban space and of the Roman economy, rarely have the two topics been investigated together in a sustained fashion. In this volume, an international team of archaeologists and historians focuses explicitly on the economics of space and mobility in Roman Imperial cities, in both Italy and the provinces, east and west. Employing many kinds of material and written evidence and a wide range of methodologies, the contributors cast new light both on well-known and on less-explored sites. With their direct focus on the everyday economic uses of urban spaces and the movements through them, the contributors offer a fresh and innovative perspective on the workings of Roman urban economies and on the debates concerning space in the Roman world. This volume will be of interest to archaeologists and historians, both those studying the Greco-Roman world and those focusing on urban economic space in other periods and places as well as to other scholars studying premodern urbanism and urban economies.
Metropolis and Hinterland
Metropolis and Hinterland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metropolis and Hinterland write by Neville Morley. This book was released on 2002-12-19. Metropolis and Hinterland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it. Rome's huge population was maintained not by trade or manufacture but by the taxes and rents of the empire. It was the archetypal 'consumer city'. However, such a label does not do full justice to the impact of the city on its hinterland. This book examines the historiography of the consumer city model and reappraises the relationship between Rome and Italy. Drawing on archaeological work and comparative evidence, the author shows how the growth of the city can be seen as the major influence on the development of the Italian economy in this period as its demands for food and migrants promoted changes in agriculture, marketing systems and urbanisation throughout the peninsula.
Urban Society In Roman Italy
Urban Society In Roman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Society In Roman Italy write by Tim J. Cornell. This book was released on 2005-07-19. Urban Society In Roman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the city and the nature of the development process.; These studies are aimed not only at ancient historians and classical archaeologists, but are directed towards those working in the related fields of urban studies in the Mediterranean world and elsewhere and upon the general theory of towns and complex societies.
The Economic Integration of Roman Italy
The Economic Integration of Roman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economic Integration of Roman Italy write by Tymon C.A. de Haas. This book was released on 2017-08-10. The Economic Integration of Roman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome, Ostia, Pompeii write by Ray Laurence. This book was released on 2018-04-18. Rome, Ostia, Pompeii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development."--Book jacket.
