The Demography Of Roman Italy
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Author | : Saskia Hin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107310717 |
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.
Author | : Walter Scheidel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Schneidel (ancient history, U. of Chicago), intending to introduce classicists and ancient historians to the field of demography, presents four case studies and a general introduction to Roman demography. Covering a range of methodological practices, the studies focus on the seasonal birthing cycle of Roman women, population estimation by referencing the recruitment of Roman soldiers, the link between demographic and economic development, and the demise of the city in late antique Egypt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : L. de Ligt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107013186 |
This book re-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history.
Author | : Saskia Hin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
ISBN | : 9781107314023 |
Investigates demographic behaviour and population trends in Italy during the emergence of the Roman Empire.
Author | : Luuk de Ligt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2008-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047424492 |
Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically. This volume offers a series of in-depth discussions not only of the republican manpower and census figures but also of the abundant archaeological data. It also explores the growth of cities, especially Rome, and the changing distribution of the population over the Italian landscape. On the rural side it addresses the interplay between demographic, economic, and legal developments and the background to the Gracchan land reforms. Finally it examines the political implications of demographic growth and large-scale migration to the provinces. The volume as a whole demonstrates that demography is the key to many aspects of Italy's economic, social, military, and political history.
Author | : Tim G. Parkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
How long did ancient Romans live? What were the leading causes of death? At what age did they marry? What percentage of the infant mortality rate was due to infanticide? Did the Romans themselves keep accurate statistics? Previous attempts to answer such questions have often proved unconvincing - in part because historians lacked the detailed knowledge of demography needed for such investigations. In Demography and Roman Society Tim Parkin shows how modern demographic tools and techniques can be used to shed new light on the study of ancient society. In Part One Parkin shows how the ancient evidence - from inscriptions on Roman tombstones to the skeletons themselves - cannot be used to provide reliable data on such demographic issues as population distribution by age, geographical location, class, and sex. In Part Two he presents an overview of modern demographic methods and models. Part Three draws some general conclusions about life in the Roman world based on demographic analysis, including mortality, fertility, marriage, contraception, and abortion.
Author | : Saskia Caroline Hin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Joshua Whatmough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : Italic peoples |
ISBN | : 9781138815308 |
This book presents a picture of pre-Roman Italy as complete and as faithful as modern discovery could make it, when it was originally published in 1937. The evidence of archaeology is combined with the testimony of historical tradition and non-Latin dialects in a balanced account of elements no less diverse than those of modern Europe. This description of Italy in the middle of the last millennium B.C. illuminates the success of Rome in achieving a united Italy, where others had failed - an achievement which paved the way for the course over of events over centuries.
Author | : Harriet I. Flower |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107032245 |
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Author | : Alessandro Launaro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107004799 |
A radical interdisciplinary reappraisal of the agrarian background to the political events which shaped the destiny of Rome (from Republic to Empire). The book actively builds upon the textual and archaeological evidence to trace the fate of the Italian rural free population during a crucial period of its history.