Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East

• Autore: Decker Michael
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 630
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - History - Provinces - To 1500 - Rome; Agriculture - History - To 1500 - Middle East; Farmers - History - Middle East; Agriculture - Economic aspects - History - Provinces - Rome; Agriculture - Economic aspects - History - Middle East; Real Estate, Housing & Land Use; Agriculture - General; Business & Economics; Agriculture; Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region History To 476; Middle East History To 622
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines the mechanisms of cultivation of the three major crops of the 'Mediterranean triad' (grain, wine, and olive oil) from the 4th to 7th centuries AD along the coastlands of the eastern Mediterranean, looking at the production of crops vital to subsistence.
• Altri titoli varianti: Tilling the hateful earth: agricultural production and trade in the late antique East; Oxford studies in Byzantium
• Titolo autorizzato: Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East
• ISBN: 0-19-172172-7; 0-19-956528-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205747503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford studies in Byzantium.