An Economic History of Rome to the End of the Republic (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Tenney Frank

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133011020X ISBN 13 : 9781330110201

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

What drove Rome’s rise and fall? A disciplined look at money, labor, and policy that shaped an empire.

This edition examines how Rome’s economy operated from the Republic’s early days through its later years. It pulls together evidence on taxes, coinage, land use, slavery, and trade to explain prosperity and collapse alike. Readers will see how fiscal choices, agricultural credit, and population shifts affected daily life, wages, and public policy.

• How slavery and freedmen contributed to the city’s labor force and social structure
• The rise and impact of rural credits, taxation, and currency debasement
• Patterns of trade, production, and the changing role of state and private capital

Ideal for readers of economic history and classical studies who want context for Rome’s long-term dynamics.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The reasons why no economic history of Rome has hitherto been available may perhaps not be apparent to those who have not attempted to write one. The lack of easily interpreted data has indeed made the task almost impossible. Roman his.tory which received little attention until Rome had become a world power was thereafter for two centuries written chiefly by public men who had devoted their lives to politics and diplomacy. These men naturally had no personal interest in commerce and manufacture; indeed they were members of a class that ,held traders and manufacturers in slight esteem. As a consequence their books, from which of course Livy drew his account, contained only casual remarks regarding the economic conditions of their nation. Archaeology has recently provided important material, especially for the study of the early period, but it is material that cannot always be precisely interpreted. The inscriptions dating from the Republican period are brief, and unfortunately temple accounts, which have provided many facts for the reconstruction of Greek economic history, were at Rome kept on perishable material. The papyri that have recently been found in large quantities in Egypt provide data in the main only for that kingdom, the economic mechanism of which was so peculiar that the historian cannot apply the inferences drawn from them to conditions prevailing elsewhere.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133011020X
• ISBN 13: 9781330110201
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 325
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