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Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,463
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Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Hardcover): Seth Bernard

Building Mid-Republican Rome - Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Hardcover)

Seth Bernard

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2018
Authors: Seth Bernard (Assistant Professor)
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-087878-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-19-087878-9
Barcode: 9780190878788

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