Debating Roman Demography

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351094
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Roman Demography written by Walter Scheidel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive survey of current methods, progress and debates in Roman demography, and offers new insights into key issues of population change and reproductive behaviour in the Roman world from Italy to Egypt.

Author : Saskia Hin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003938
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demography of Roman Italy written by Saskia Hin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates demographic behaviour and population trends in Italy during the emergence of the Roman Empire. It unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Also featured is a chapter on climate change in Roman times.

Author : Claire Holleran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499637
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demography and the Graeco-Roman World written by Claire Holleran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of case studies this book demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of demographic dynamics on social, economic and political structures in the Graeco-Roman world. The individual case studies focus on fertility, mortality and migration and the roles they played in various aspects of ancient life. These studies – drawn from a range of populations in Athens and Attica, Rome and Italy, and Graeco-Roman Egypt – illustrate how new insights can be gained by applying demographic methods to familiar themes in ancient history. Methodological issues are addressed in a clear, straightforward manner with no assumption of prior technical knowledge, ensuring that the book is accessible to readers with no training in demography. The book marks an important step forward in ancient historical demography, affirming both the centrality of population studies in ancient history and the contribution that antiquity can make to population history in general.

Author : Tim G. Parkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demography and Roman Society written by Tim G. Parkin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long did ancient Romans live? What were the leading causes of death? At what age did they marry? What percentage of the infant mortality rate was due to infanticide? Did the Romans themselves keep accurate statistics? Previous attempts to answer such questions have often proved unconvincing - in part because historians lacked the detailed knowledge of demography needed for such investigations. In Demography and Roman Society Tim Parkin shows how modern demographic tools and techniques can be used to shed new light on the study of ancient society. In Part One Parkin shows how the ancient evidence - from inscriptions on Roman tombstones to the skeletons themselves - cannot be used to provide reliable data on such demographic issues as population distribution by age, geographical location, class, and sex. In Part Two he presents an overview of modern demographic methods and models. Part Three draws some general conclusions about life in the Roman world based on demographic analysis, including mortality, fertility, marriage, contraception, and abortion.

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004350942
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death on the Nile written by Walter Scheidel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size. Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.

Author : L. de Ligt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013186
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers written by L. de Ligt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history.

Author : Saskia Hin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107310717
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demography of Roman Italy written by Saskia Hin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic, climatic and social conditions in a period of intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the evidence on the demographic toll taken by warfare and rising societal complexity leads her to a revisionist 'middle count' scenario of population development in Italy. In tracing the population history of an ancient conquest society, she provides an accessible pathway into Roman demography which focuses on the three main demographic parameters - mortality, fertility and migration. She unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Tables, figures and maps enable readers to visualise the quantitative dynamics at work.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032245
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Luuk de Ligt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171185
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People, Land, and Politics written by Luuk de Ligt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically. This volume offers a series of in-depth discussions not only of the republican manpower and census figures but also of the abundant archaeological data. It also explores the growth of cities, especially Rome, and the changing distribution of the population over the Italian landscape. On the rural side it addresses the interplay between demographic, economic, and legal developments and the background to the Gracchan land reforms. Finally it examines the political implications of demographic growth and large-scale migration to the provinces. The volume as a whole demonstrates that demography is the key to many aspects of Italy's economic, social, military, and political history.

Author : John C. Caldwell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402044984
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demographic Transition Theory written by John C. Caldwell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. It asks if fluctuating populations is a new phenomenon, or if there has long been an inherent tendency in Man to maximize survival and to control family size.