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Land and Labour - Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Hardcover)
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Land and Labour - Studies in Roman Social and Economic History (Hardcover)
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Modern scholarship dealing with the economy of the ancient world
has developed rapidly in recent decades. Studies of ancient
economic structures and history have in many respects achieve
standards as a discipline comparable to those of economic history,
using models and scenarios exactly as it is frequently seen in
studies of later periods with better sources. The best example is
perhaps the historical demography of Roman Italy. It was a marginal
field of research until the early 1990s, but is now one of the key
subjects in the study of Roman economy with a lively debate between
the followers of a low count reconstruction of the demographic
development in Roman Italy versus the scholars who favour a high
count. Furthermore, quantitative studies have become serious
scholarship and are no longer despised as only number games' as is
apparent, for instance, from the new Oxford Roman Economy Project.'
This is due to the great amount of published archaeological
material such as terra sigillata, amphorae and shipwrecks. It is
also illustrated by the shift from the predominant orthodoxy of the
primitivism in the 1970s and 1980s to theoretical and
methodological orientations inspired by the so-called New
Institutional Economics and a diversity of approaches. But it has
also rightly been pointed out that the struggle between
primitivists' and modernists', which still, a century later,
continues to haunt scholarly discussions, often under the revealing
name of minimalists and maximalists, signifying that the problem
has often wrongly been reduced to one of quantities, mainly of
trade. All the chapters of this book were originally published as
articles or contributions to proceedings of different conferences
between 1990 and 2010.
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