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Peasants and Slaves

Peasants and Slaves

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Classical Studies

Ancient RomeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1107004799
ISBN13: 9781107004795
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 19 2011
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
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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