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Modern economics tantalizes historians, promising them a set of simple verbal and mathematical formulas to explain and even retrospectively predict historical actions and choices. Colin P. Elliott challenges economic historians to rethink the way they use economic theory. Building upon the approaches of Max Weber, R. G. Collingwood, Ludwig von Mises and others, Elliott reconceptualizes economic theories such as the quantity theory of money and Gresham's law as heuristic constructs - constructs which help historians identify and understand the unique modes of thought and embedding contexts which characterized economic action in the Roman Empire. The book offers novel analyses of key events in Roman monetary history, from Augustus' triumph over Mark Antony and Cleopatra, to third-century AD coinage debasements. Roman history has long been a battleground for polarizing methodological debates, but this book's accessible style and conciliatory tone invites historians, economists, sociologists and other scholars to use economic theory for understanding.

Money --- Coinage --- Monetary policy --- History --- History. --- E-books --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Money - Rome - History --- Coinage - Rome - History --- Monetary policy - Rome - History

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Even if his wide-ranging research work is not limited to Roman agrarian history, this is the field in which his contribution has been decisive and internationally recognized. For this reason, Domenico Vera chose this theme when he planned to gather in a single coherent volume a number of texts that first appeared in not easily accessible publications. The critical examination to which he submitted the sources over the years enabled him to radically renew the account that was traditionally given of the late imperial rural world, at opposite ends of the self-sufficiency that was posited by the 19th century historians, while revisiting the chronology of its implementation. Domenico Vera challenges an alleged break in the Italian agricultural flourishing throughout the 2nd and 3rd centuries as well as an alleged continuity from the 4th-6th centuries colonate up to medieval serfdom, or the prefiguration of the large Carolingian estate as soon as the Later Roman Empire. Domenico Vera clearly identified those three main features which make a difference in agrarian structures before and after the 3rd century: “deconcentration of production (hence the prevalence of colonate)”; “indirect land management (hence the expansion of a multi-level tenancy system)”; “concentration of the rent and surplus held by the landlords (hence the decline of the banking professions) and the tendency to the overlapping of great landlordship and wholesale trade”. From now on Italian agrarian economy and society organised themselves around two antithetic but non-adversarial poles: the land barons and an authentic “peasant society”. This volume aims at giving to more readers easier access to key texts some of which were published in hardly available journals or conference proceedings. = Bien que son œuvre scientifique, aux multiples versants, ne se limite pas à l’histoire agraire romaine, c’est ce thème où son apport a été déterminant et internationalement reconnu que Domenico Vera a retenu pour réunir en un volume homogène des textes dispersées dans des publications souvent difficiles d’accès. Le travail critique sur les sources qu’il a mené au fil des ans l’a conduit à renouveler radicalement le tableau traditionnellement offert du monde rural tardoimpérial, aux antipodes de l’autarcie postulée par les historiens du XIXe siècle, et à bouleverser la chronologie de sa mise en place. Domenico Vera récuse aussi bien une prétendue rupture de la prospérité agricole italienne au cours des IIe-IIIe siècles qu’une prétendue continuité entre le colonat des IVe-VIe siècles et le servage médiéval, ou la préfiguration, dès l’Empire tardif, du grand domaine carolingien. Domenico Vera a clairement identifié les trois traits principaux qui différencient les structures agraires de part et d’autre du IIIe siècle : « déconcentration de la production (d’où la prédominance du colonat) » ; « gestion foncière indirecte (d’où l’expansion d’un système de location à plusieurs étages) » ; « concentration de la rente et du surplus entre les mains des propriétaires (d’où le déclin des métiers de la banque et la tendance à la superposition de la grande propriété et du commerce de gros ». L’économie et la société agraire italienne s’organisent désormais autour de deux pôles antithétiques mais non contradictoires : les magnats de la terre et une véritable « peasant society ». Le présent volume se propose de rendre accessibles à un plus vaste lectorat des textes fondamentaux publiés parfois dans des revues ou des actes de colloques peu diffusés.

Agriculture --- Rome --- History --- Agriculture - Rome - History --- Agriculture - Mediterranean Region - History

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"Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects - legal, religious, literary, political, and cultural - this book aims to explain the profound relationship between the two. Through the examination of a rich array of sources ranging from classical authors to coins, from legal texts to works of art, Balmaceda and her co-authors propose new readings that elucidate the complex meanings and inter-related functions of libertas and res publica , in a thought-provoking, deep, but very readable study of Roman political culture and identity"--

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The Resilience of the Roman Empire' discusses the relationship between population and regional development in the Roman world from the perspective of archaeology. By adapting a comparative approach, the focus of the volume lies on exploring the various ways in which regional communities actively responded to population growth - or decline for that matter - in order to keep going on the land available to them. The theoretical framework - or at least the starting point - for the case studies is the agricultural intensification models developed by Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup. In order to advance the debate on the validity of these models for identifying the societal and economic pathways of the Roman world, the contributors incorporate the concepts of resilience and diversity into their approach, and shift attention from the longue-durée to how people managed to sustain themselves over shorter periods of time. The aim of the volume is not to discard the theories of Malthus and Boserup, but rather to deconstruct overly strict Malthusian or Boserupian scenarios, and as such introduce novel and more layered ways of thinking by exploring resilience and variability in human responses to population growth/decline in the Roman world.

Agriculture --- Economic aspects --- Rome --- Population. --- Rural development --- Food supply --- Economic conditions --- History --- Population --- Rome - History - Empire, 284-476 --- Rome - Population