Roman Farming

Author : David B. Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351596411
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy written by David B. Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from smallholders to the owners of large estates – bought and sold, lent and borrowed, and cooperated as well as competed in the Roman economy. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on, and exposure to, macroeconomic phenomena such as monetization and changes in the level and nature of demand for goods and labor. After considering the demographic and environmental context of Italian agriculture, the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmers’ economic decisions? This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy.

Author : K. D. White
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Farming written by K. D. White and published by Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David B. Hollander
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741912X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money in the Late Roman Republic written by David B. Hollander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman monetary history has tended to focus on the study of Roman coinage but other assets regularly functioned as, or in place of, money. This book places coinage in its broader monetary context by also examining the role of bullion, financial instruments, and commodities such as grain and wine in making payments, facilitating exchange, measuring value and storing wealth. The use of such assets reduced the demand for coinage in some sectors of the economy and is a crucial factor in determining the impact of the large increase in the coin supply during the last century of the Republic. Money demand theory suggests that increased coin production led to further monetization, not per capita economic growth.

Author : Alan Bowman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199665729
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Agricultural Economy written by Alan Bowman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents new analyses for the nature and scale of Roman agriculture. It outlines the fundamental features of agricultural production through studying the documentary and archaeological evidence for the modes of land exploitation and the organisation, development of, and investment in this sector.

Author : K. D. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521147576
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Implements of the Roman World written by K. D. White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the tools that the Roman world used in farming and with the way they used them. The author uses practical knowledge of agriculture, as well as learning, to identify and interpret the objects under examination.

Author : David Hollander
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118970942
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Agriculture written by David Hollander and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length overview of agricultural development in the ancient world A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative overview of the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world. Focusing primarily on the Near East and Mediterranean regions, this unique text explores the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals through centuries of human civilization—from the Neolithic beginnings of agriculture to Late Antiquity. Chapters written by the leading scholars in their fields present a multidisciplinary examination of the agricultural methods and influences that have enabled humans to survive and prosper. Consisting of thirty-one chapters, the Companion presents essays on a range of topics that include economic-political, anthropological, zooarchaeological, ethnobotanical, and archaeobotanical investigation of ancient agriculture. Chronologically-organized chapters offer in-depth discussions of agriculture in Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia, Hellenistic Greece and Imperial Rome, Iran and Central Asia, and other regions. Sections on comparative agricultural history discuss agriculture in the Indian subcontinent and prehistoric China while an insightful concluding section helps readers understand ancient agriculture from a modern perspective. Fills the need for a full-length biophysical and social overview of ancient agriculture Provides clear accounts of the current state of research written by experts in their respective areas Places ancient Mediterranean agriculture in conversation with contemporary practice in Eastern and Southern Asia Includes coverage of analysis of stable isotopes in ancient agricultural cultivation Offers plentiful illustrations, references, case studies, and further reading suggestions A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is a much-needed resource for advanced students, instructors, scholars, and researchers in fields such as agricultural history, ancient economics, and in broader disciplines including classics, archaeology, and ancient history.

Author : Marcus Porcius Cato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Farm Management written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note upon the Roman agronomists.-Note on the obligations of Virgil to Varro. -- Cato's De agricultura.-Varro's Rerum rusticarum libri tres.

Author : Marcus Porcius Cato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Farm Management written by Marcus Porcius Cato and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354033759
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella On Agriculture (Volume II) written by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bird
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785703226
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain written by David Bird and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the ‘civilian’ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. The focus is particularly on Kent, Surrey and Sussex account is taken of information from neighbouring counties, particularly when the difficult subsoils affect the availability of evidence. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in each county, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London. Agriculture and industry provides an up-to-date assessment of our knowledge of the southern hinterland of Roman London and an area that was particularly open to influences from the Continent.