Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C E King, Richard Duncan-Jones (Canisius College, corresponding author), Tim Williams (0000-0001-8281-4208, corresponding author), Colin King (0000-0001-8537-5853, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 438 |
| Publication date | 1992-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2597656 |
| OpenAlex | W3022560135 |
| Open Library | OL2189079M |
| ISBN | 9780511552649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 344 |
This book by the author of The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies considers important interlocking themes. Did the Roman Empire have a single 'national' economy, or was its economy localised and fragmented? Can coin and pottery survivals demonstrate the importance of long-distance trade? How fast did essential news travel by sea, and what does that imply about Mediterranean sailing-patterns? Further subjects considered include taxation, commodity-prices, demography, and army pay and manpower. The book is very wide-ranging in its geographical coverage and in the evidence that it explores. By analysing specific features of the economy the contrasting discussions examine important questions about its character and limitations, and about how surviving evidence should be interpreted. The book throws new and significant light on the economic life of Europe and the Mediterranean in antiquity, and will be valuable to ancient historians and students of European economic history
Ancient history · Archaeology · Business · Cartography · Commodity · Economic geography · Economics · Economies of scale · Economy · Empire · Geography · Late Antiquity · Market economy · Mediterranean climate · Pottery · Roman Empire · Scale (ratio · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Marketing · 30 B.C.-476 A.D · Antiguidade · Economia · Economic conditions · Economische structuur · Rome
Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science
Class and Power in Roman Palestine
Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
A Brief Orientation
Lists
Tables and Tabular Organization
Representing Three Dimensions
Warfare and Environment in the Ancient World
The Biological Standard of Living in Europe from the Late Iron Age to the Little Ice Age
Tables
Conclusion
Representing Two Dimensions
Figures
Plates
Landscape Archaeology Between Art and Science
A History of the Roman Equestrian Order
Class and Power in Roman Palestine
The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533
The Organization of Ancient Economies
Transport and the Land Economy
Social Mobility and the Cities of Italy
The Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks of Egypt
Conclusion
Trade and Transport
Deserts and Military Supply
The Rural Landscapes of Imperial Italy
Introduction
Transport Animals and Wagons
Conclusion
Animal Requisition
Animal Use and Maintenance
State Grain Transport
Animal Trade and Ownership
Weights and measures, Roman
The Transformation of the City in Imperial Italy
State Control of Animal Ownership
Money in Imperial Rome
The world-view
The Early Roman Empire
Cursus and Vita (II)
The individual and the gods
Late Roman social relations
Rural life in the later Roman empire
Status and patronage
Christianity, a.d. 70–192
The emperor and his advisers
Family and household
Hadrian to the Antonines
The Late Republic
Warfare and the state
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor
Law and Economic Institutions
Classical Greece
Orthodoxy and heresy from the death of Constantine to the eve of the first council of Ephesus
Local and provincial institutions and government
The government and administration of the empire in the central decades of the third century
Emperor, Senate and magistrates
Rebels and outsiders
War and society
Egypt from Septimius Severus to the death of Constantine
A Case of Arbitrage in a Worldwide Trade
Classical Greece
Polytheist religion and philosophy
Rome and Italy
Armenia and the eastern marches
Coinage and taxation
Nerva to Hadrian
Developments in provincial and local administration
Classical Greece
Education and literary culture
The Politics of Endowments
Diocletian and the first tetrarchy, a.d. 284–305
Maximinus to Diocletian and the ‘crisis’
The growth of administrative posts
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy
The Development of Towns
Art and architecture
The grand strategy of the Roman Empire
The later Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
Commerce and finance
The Early Roman Empire
The Danube provinces
The Reign of Constantine, a.d. 306–337
The Transition to Late Antiquity
Greece and Asia Minor
The new state of Diocletian and Constantine
Senators and senates
Provincial administration and finance
Household and Gender
Asceticism
The Severan dynasty
The successors of Constantine
The age of the Severans
Early Rome and Italy
The Germanic peoples and Germanic society
Emperors, government and bureaucracy
High classical law
| Unique citing works | 261 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 1920 - 2025 (106) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 341 |