Overview

This volume is a collection of studies which presents new analyses of the nature and scale of Roman agriculture in the Mediterranean world from c. 100 BC to AD 350. It provides a clear understanding of the fundamental features of Roman 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 of the Roman economy. Moving substantially beyond the simple assumption that agriculture was the dominant sector of the ancient economy, the volume explores what was special and distinctive about it, especially with a view of its development and integration during a period of expansion and prosperity across the empire. The papers exemplify a range of possible approaches to studying and, within limits, quantifying aspects of Roman agricultural production, marshalling a large quantity of evidence, chiefly archaeological and papyrological, to address important questions of the organisation and performance of this sector in the Roman world.

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Author:   Alan Bowman (Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents) ,  Andrew Wilson (Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9780199665723

ISBN 10:   0199665729
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   30 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1: Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson: Introduction: Quantifying Roman Agriculture 2: Dennis Kehoe: The State and Production in the Roman Agrarian Economy 3: Helen Goodchild: GIS Models of Roman Agricultural Production 4: Annalisa Marzano: Agricultural Production in the Hinterland of Rome: Wine and Olive Oil 5: Annalisa Marzano: Capital Investment and Agriculture: Multi-Press Facilities from Gaul, the Iberian Peninsula and the Black Sea region 6: Mariette de Vos: The Rural Landscape of Thugga: Farms, Presses, Mills and Transport 7: Alan Bowman: Agricultural Productivity in Roman Egypt 8: Katherine Blouin: The Agricultural Economy of the Mendesian Nome during the Roman Period 9: Myrto Malouta and Andrew Wilson: Mechanical irrigation: water-lifting devices in the archaeological evidence and in the Egyptian papyri 10: Hannah Friedman: Agriculture in the Faynan: Food Supply for Industry Index

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The Roman Agricultural Economy contains wide-ranging and high-quality scholarship that, on the one hand, reflects the focus of current investigations and, on the other, provides fruitful material for future research. This balance renders it a welcome addition to scholarship on the Roman economy, and a worthy successor in the OXREP series. --Taco Terpstra, Classical Journal

Author Information

Alan Bowman is Principal of Brasenose College and Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University. His research interests focus on papyrology, the Vindolanda Writing-Tablets, and the social and economic history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and the Roman Empire. Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies. He has directed excavations in Italy, Tunisia, and Libya, and is the author of numerous articles on ancient water supply, ancient technology, economy, and trade.

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