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

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focus...

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1. Verfasser: Garnsey, Peter
Weitere Verfasser: Scheidel, Walter, 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Zusammenfassung:Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 336 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-329) and index.
ISBN:0511005164
9780511005169
051158539X
9780511585395

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