The shotgun method : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture / / Mogens Herman Hansen

• Autore: Hansen Mogens Herman <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)
• Disciplina: 938
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Greece
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Population History Congresses; Greece History To 146 B.C Congresses
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-132) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Abbreviations; I The Shotgun Method Used to Establish the Number of Inhabitants in the Ancient Greek City-States; II The Population of Walled Poleis; III The Proportion of the Population Settled in the Hinterland; IV The Carrying Capacity of the Ancient Greek Polis World; Appendix 1 Some Test Cases; Appendix 2 Population of the Greek Homeland versus the Population of Colonies and Hellenized Communities; Appendix 3 Walled Poleis Organized according to Size of Territory; Appendix 4 Walled Poleis Geographically Organized. Appendix 5 The Population of Walled Poleis in Epeiros and Makedonia Appendix 6 Corvisier's Calculation of the Urban Population of Thessaly; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: "Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: The shotgun method
• ISBN: 0-8262-6548-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807629003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series.