Paul Erdkamp, Erdkamp Paul

The Grain Market in the Roman Empire

A Social, Political and Economic Study

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a contemporary approach to the crucial issue of the supply of grain in the Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117838
• ISBN-10: 0521117836
• Artikelnr.: 26203993

Autorenporträt

Paul Erdkamp is Research Fellow in Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Hunger and the Sword. Warfare and Food Supply in Roman Republican Wars (264-30 BC) (1998). He is the editor of The Roman Army and the Economy (1998) and A Companion to the Roman Army (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Production and productivity in Roman agriculture
2. The world of the smallholder
3. Farmers and their market relations
4. Market integration: connecting supply and demand
5. Rome and the corn provinces
6. Urban food supply and grain market intervention
Conclusions
References
Indexes.