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1 online resource (xiv, 637 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Late antique archaelogy ; 10 |
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Late antique archaelogy ; 10
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| Contents |
LOCAL ECONOMIES? PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE OF INLAND REGIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Local Economies in Late Antiquity? Some Thoughts; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS; The Late Antique Economy: Approaches, Methods and Conceptual Issues; The Late Antique Economy: Regional Surveys; The Late Antique Economy: Primary and Secondary Production; The Late Antique Economy: Infrastructures of Transport and Retail; The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade; THEORETICAL PAPERS |
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How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional? A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique EconomyIntegration and Disintegration in the Late Roman Economy:The Role of Markets, Emperors, and Aristocrats; PRODUCTION IN INLAND REGIONS; Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania; The Lessons of Gaulish Sigillata and Other Finewares; Patterning the Late Antique Economies of Inland Sicily in a Mediterranean Context; Diana Veteranorum and the Dynamics of an Inland Economy; The Economic Expansion of the Anatolian Countryside in Late Antiquity: The Coast versus Inland Regions |
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The Urban Economy in Southern Inland Greater Syria from the Seventh Century to the End of the UmayyadsEXCHANGE IN INLAND REGIONS; Balancing the Scales: Romano-British Pottery in Early Late. Antiquity; The Supply and Distribution of Ceramic Building Material in Roman Britain; Imported and Local Pottery in Late Roman Pannonia; Africa: Patterns of Consumption in Coastal Regions versus Inland Regions. The Ceramic Evidence (300-700 A.D.); Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria. (Fourth-Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and Local Wares; Abstracts in French; Indices |
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Themes and PeopleIndex of Places; LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Summary |
The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems. Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Ha¿¿rshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottoma¿¿nyi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agne¿¿s Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Civilization
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Commerce
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Economic history
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Rome -- Economic conditions -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007572
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Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions
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Rome -- Commerce -- History
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Byzantine Empire -- Commerce -- History
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Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018476
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| Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lavan, Luke
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| ISBN |
9004309780 |
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9789004309784 |
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9789004277038 |
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900427703X |
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