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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777409903321

Autore

Rosenstein Nathan Stewart

Titolo

Rome at war [[electronic resource] ] : farms, families, and death in the Middle Republic / / by Nathan Rosenstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908774-4-4

0-8078-6410-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of Greece and Rome

Disciplina

630/.937/6

Soggetti

Agriculture - Rome - History

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Rome - History

Farms, Small - Rome - History

War and society - Rome - History

Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Agriculture in Italy from Hannibal to Tiberius Gracchus; 2. War and Agriculture: A Critique of the Conventional View; 3. War and the Life Cycles of Families: Three Models; 4. Mortality in War; 5. Military Mortality and Agrarian Crisis; Appendix 1. The Number of Roman Slaves in 168 B.C.; Appendix 2. The Accuracy of the Roman Calendar before 218 B.C.; Appendix 3. Tenancy; Appendix 4. The Minimum Age for Military Service; Appendix 5. The Proportion of Assidui in the Roman Population

Appendix 6. The Duration of Military Service in the Second Century B.C.Appendix 7. The Number of Citizen Deaths as a Result of Military Service between 203 and 168 B.C.; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war



and agriculture throughout the middle republic.The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for ag