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Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Paperback)
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Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Paperback)
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Building Mid-Republican Rome offers a holistic treatment of the
development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As
Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city
itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian
settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world. Seth
Bernard describes this transformation in terms of both new urban
architecture, much of it unprecedented in form and extent, and new
socioeconomic structures, including slavery, coinage, and
market-exchange. These physical and historical developments were
closely linked: building the Republican city was expensive, and
meeting such costs had significant implications for urban society.
Building Mid-Republican Rome brings both architectural and
socioeconomic developments into a single account of urban change.
Bernard, a specialist in the period's history and archaeology,
assembles a wide array of evidence, from literary sources to coins,
epigraphy, and especially archaeological remains, revealing the
period's importance for the decline of the Roman state's reliance
on obligation and dependency and the rise of slavery and an urban
labor market. This narrative is told through an investigation of
the evolving institutional frameworks shaping the organization of
public construction. A quantitative model of the costs of the
Republican city walls reconstructs their economic impact. A new
account of building technology in the period allows for a better
understanding of the social and demographic profile of the city's
builders. Building Mid-Republican Rome thus provides an innovative
synthesis of a major Western city's spatial and historical aspects,
shedding much-needed light on a seminal period in Rome's
development.
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