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Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy, 225 BC–AD 100

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107519128, 9781107519121
LCC
HB3599.L485 2012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2436439 bytes)
Pages
408\407
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2020-12-04 18:02:08

Description

Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are: military participation rates; demographic recovery after the Second Punic War; the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms; the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War; emigration from Italy; and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate.

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