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Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed
parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its
economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team
of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and
archaeology. They study the direct impact of Roman rule; the
organisation of large agricultural estates; changing patterns of
olive production; threats to rural prosperity from pests and the
animal world; inter-regional trade in the Black Sea; the
significance of civic market buildings; the economic role of
temples and sanctuaries; the contribution of private benefactors to
civic finances; and, monetization in the third century AD, and the
effect of transitory populations on local economic activity.
This fourth volume in the Amorium Monograph Series is devoted to
the numismatic evidence from the ancient and mediaeval city of
Amorium in central Anatolia (Turkey). It comprises two distinct
parts. In Section 1 the city mint of Amorium is discussed and
illustrated by a chronological and typological catalogue of known
specimens. The city mint flourished from the Late Republican period
until the reign of the emperor Caracalla. In Sections 2 and 3 there
is a catalogue of some 730 coins dating from Hellenistic to Ottoman
times that have been found at the site between 1987 and 2006. The
majority of these finds belong to the Byzantine period between the
reigns of Anastasius I and Alexius I and provide confirmation of
the city s enduring importance and economic vitality as the capital
of the Anatolic Theme."
A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of
forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the
modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history.
The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and
different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific
case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical
Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery
that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United
States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has
inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of
slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to
the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and
space.
The Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official
Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces
produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and
elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This
is a comprehensive study of the workings of the system in the
Eastern provinces from the Augustan period to the third century AD,
when the Roman Empire suffered a monetary and economic crisis. The
Eastern provinces exemplify the full complexity of the system, but
comparisons are made with evidence from the Western provinces as
well as with appropriate case studies from other historical times
and places. The book will be essential for all Roman historians and
numismatists and of interest to a broader range of historians of
economics and finance.
The Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official
Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces
produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and
elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This
is a comprehensive study of the workings of the system in the
Eastern provinces from the Augustan period to the third century AD,
when the Roman Empire suffered a monetary and economic crisis. The
Eastern provinces exemplify the full complexity of the system, but
comparisons are made with evidence from the Western provinces as
well as with appropriate case studies from other historical times
and places. The book will be essential for all Roman historians and
numismatists and of interest to a broader range of historians of
economics and finance.
Ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of
forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the
modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history.
The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and
different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific
case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical
Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery
that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United
States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has
inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of
slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to
the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and
space.
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