Willem M Jongman

Biographic Data

ID9155779
NAMEWillem M Jongman
GIVEN NAMESWillem M
FAMILY NAMEJongman
SIGNATUREJONGMAN W M
AFFILIATIONSDepartment History, University of Groningen, The Netherlands & Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Demography of the Ancient Roman World

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • The Economic Archaeology of Roman Economic Performance

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanCHAPTER2019

    Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in the study of the Roman economy. Methodologically modern economic analysis is now far more acceptable than it once was, and archaeology has become the major source of empirical data for many questions. On the substantive side there is now a far clearer appreciation of the major changes that the Roman economy underwent, with substantial growth of population and aggregate production and even some impro…

  • Health and wealth in the Roman Empire

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M Jongman et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2019

    Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not universally accepted research suggests that at least for the most populous central periods of its history standard of living was also rather higher than before or after. To trace whether this is also reflected in Roman biological standard of living, we present the first large and more or less comprehensive…

  • Re-constructing the Roman economy

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanCHAPTERCambridge History of Capitalism :…2014

  • Why Modern Economic Theory Applies, Even to the Distant Roman Past

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanARTICLETheoretical Roman Archaeology…2014

  • The Cambridge History of Capitalism

    Open AccessJeremy Atack, Michael Jursa et al.BOOKCambridge History of Capitalism :…2014

    The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian ci…

  • Formalism–substantivism debate

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The debate that dominated ancient economic history during the closing decades of the twentieth century was that between the so‐called primitivists and the so‐called modernists.

  • The Early Roman Empire

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanCHAPTERThe Cambridge economic history of…2007

    Roman society of the early empire presents a confusing and ambiguous image that we cannot easily situate in unidirectional accounts of European economic history. Clearly, public monuments in marble or other precious stone, military security, the urban food supply, roads, aqueducts and gladiatorial games testify to public consumption on a grand scale. On the other hand, the signs of poverty, misery, and destitution are no less obvious. Many inhabi…

  • Rome

    Open AccessWillem Jongman, Willem M JongmanARTICLEThe Medieval History Journal2003

    The vast Roman Empire. stretching from northern England to the Arabian deserts, the only world empire in pre-industrial European history, had a population of at least 60 million in first century A.D. In many parts, population densities were higher than ever until the modern age. An unprecedented proportion of this population was urban. The cities were well built, and well interconnected. Yet, Rome was also a world of misery, squalor and poverty. …