Peasants and Slaves

The Rural Population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100)

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Alessandro Launaro

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Cambridge Classical Studies

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The crisis of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an Empire have fascinated generations of scholars. It has long been assumed that a dramatic demographic decline of the rural free peasantry (which was supplanted by slaves) triggered the series of social and economic developments which eventually led to Rome's political crisis during the first century BC. This book contributes to a lively debate by exploring both the textual and the archaeological evidence, and by tracing and reassessing the actual fate of the Italian rural free population between the Late Republic and the Early Empire. Data derived from a comparative analysis of twenty-seven archaeological surveys – and about five thousand sites – allow Dr Launaro to outline a radically new picture according to which episodes of local decline are placed within a much more generalised pattern of demographic growth.

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Alessandro Launaro is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. He has taken part in surveys and excavations in Liguria, Tuscany and Marche, and is currently researching the relationship between population dynamics, rural settlement patterns and agrarian economic regimes across Roman Italy.

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May 19th, 2011

Author

Alessandro Launaro

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Professional & Vocational

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66 Tables, black and white; 15 Maps; 27 Halftones, unspecified; 28 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

364

Series

Cambridge Classical Studies

Dimensions

175x249x25

ISBN-13

9781107004795

Product ID

8594331

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