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Record Nr.

UNISA996213867503316

Titolo

The Roman agricultural economy : organization, investment, and production / / edited by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-19-175117-0

0-19-165192-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy

Oxford studies on the Roman economy

Altri autori (Persone)

BowmanAlan K

WilsonAndrew <1968->

Disciplina

338.10937

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Rome - History

Rome Economic conditions

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; 1. Introduction: Quantifying Roman Agriculture / Andrew Wilson -- ; 2. The State and Production in the Roman Agrarian Economy / Dennis Kehoe -- ; 3. GIS Models of Roman Agricultural Production / Helen Goodchild -- ; 4. Agricultural Production in the Hinterland of Rome: Wine and Olive Oil / Annalisa Marzano -- ; 5. Capital Investment and Agriculture: Multi-Press Facilities from Gaul, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Black Sea Region / Annalisa Marzano -- ; 6. The Rural Landscape of Thugga: Farms, Presses, Mills, and Transport / Mariette de Vos -- ; 7. Agricultural Production in Egypt / Alan Bowman -- ; 8. The Agricultural Economy of the Mendesian Nome under Roman Rule / Katherine Blouin -- ; 9. Mechanical Irrigation: Water-Lifting Devices in the Archaeological Evidence and in the Egyptian Papyri / Andrew Wilson -- ; 10. Agriculture in the Faynan: Food Supply for the Mining Industry / Hannah Friedman.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection presents new analyses of 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.