Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy - Richard Duncan-Jones - Google Books Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Sign in Books Try the new Google Books Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features Try it now No thanks Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books My library Help Advanced Book Search Get print book No eBook available Cambridge University Press Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com Books-A-Million IndieBound Find in a library All sellers » Get Textbooks on Google Play Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Go to Google Play Now » Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy Richard Duncan-Jones Cambridge University Press, May 2, 2002 - History - 264 pages 1 Review This book by the author of The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies considers important interlocking themes. Did the Roman Empire have a single 'national' economy, or was its economy localised and fragmented? Can coin and pottery survivals demonstrate the importance of long-distance trade? How fast did essential news travel by sea, and what does that imply about Mediterranean sailing-patterns? Further subjects considered include taxation, commodity-prices, demography, and army pay and manpower. The book is very wide-ranging in its geographical coverage and in the evidence that it explores. By analysing specific features of the economy the contrasting discussions examine important questions about its character and limitations, and about how surviving evidence should be interpreted. The book throws new and significant light on the economic life of Europe and the Mediterranean in antiquity, and will be valuable to ancient historians and students of European economic history.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review LibraryThing Review User Review  - barlow304 - LibraryThingMore a aseries of essays and specialist articles than a book, Duncan-Jones's Structure and Scale nonetheless contains many fascinating insights into the economy of the Roman empire. This book is not suitable for general readers. Read full review Selected pages Title Page Index References Contents Communicationspeed and contact by sea in the Roman empire 7 Trade taxes and money 30 Separation and cohesion in Mediterranean trade 48 Stability and change 59 DEMOGRAPHY AND MANPOWER 77 Ageawareness in the Roman world 79 Roman lifeexpectancy 93 Pay and numbers in Diocletians army 105 Who paid for public building? 174 TAXPAYMENT AND TAXASSESSMENT 185 Taxation in money and taxation in kind 187 Land taxes and labour implications of the iugum 199 APPENDICES 211 DATED BUILDING EVIDENCE 213 TOTALS OF DATED PAPYRI BY REGNAL YEAR 214 EXISTING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BEATTY FIGURES 220 More AGRARIAN PATTERNS 119 Land and landed wealth 121 The price of wheat in Roman Egypt 143 THE WORLD OF CITIES 157 The social cost of urbanisation 159 THE IUGUM IN EPIPHANIUS 222 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 INDEX 234 Copyright Less Other editions - View all Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy Richard Duncan-Jones No preview available - 1990 Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy Richard Duncan-Jones No preview available - 1990 Common terms and phrases Africa ages allowed already appears argue army artaba average belong building Carthage Centre century chapter cities coin consistent contains Dacia death denarii detailed direct documents donatives drachmas Duncan-Jones early edicts Egypt Egyptian emperor empire estates evidence example existed fact figures further given Group Hadrian half hold imperial implied important increase indicates inscriptions interpretation Italy iugera iugum Jones kind known lamps land late later less levied limited lower Marcus marques mean measure median Mediterranean months needed normally paid pattern payment percentage period possible Principate probably produced provinces received refer reflect regional reign relatively remains Roman Rome sample seasonal seems seen shown social South suggests Table taxation third Thugga took town trade Trajan units variation References to this book The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership John Christman Limited preview - 1994 Trajan: Optimus Princeps : a Life and Times Julian Bennett No preview available - 1997 All Book Search results » Bibliographic information Title Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy Author Richard Duncan-Jones Edition illustrated, revised Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0521892899, 9780521892896 Length 264 pages Subjects History  › Ancient  › General History / Ancient / General History / World     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home