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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786284003321

Autore

Hin Saskia <1980->

Titolo

The demography of Roman Italy : population dynamics in an ancient conquest society (201 BCE-14 CE) / / Saskia Hin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-30119-X

1-107-30228-5

1-107-30544-6

1-107-30627-2

0-511-78230-6

1-107-30847-X

1-107-31182-9

1-299-00892-5

1-107-31402-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS002000

Disciplina

304.60937/09014

Soggetti

Mortality - Italy - History

Fertility, Human - Italy - History

Migration, Internal - Italy - History

Italy Population History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Economic and Ecological Parameters: 1. Introduction -- 2. Framing the economic setting: structure and development -- 3. Climate and climatic change -- Part II. The Demographic Parameters: Mortality, Fertility and Migration: 4. Mortality -- 5. Fertility -- 6. Migration -- Part III. Population Size: 7. Counting Romans -- 8. Archaeology and population: demography from potsherds? 9. Summary and conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.

Sommario/riassunto

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.