Format:
X, 339 S.
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Graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [s.l.] eblib 2009 Online-Ressource Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780807828397
,
0807828394
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0807864102
Series Statement:
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Agriculture in Italy from Hannibal to Tiberius Gracchus -- Notes -- 2. War and Agriculture: A Critique of the Conventional View -- Notes -- 3. War and the Life Cycles of Families: Three Models -- Notes -- 4. Mortality in War -- Notes -- 5. Military Mortality and Agrarian Crisis -- Notes -- Appendix 1. The Number of Roman Slaves in 168 B.C. -- Notes -- Appendix 2. The Accuracy of the Roman Calendar before 218 B.C. -- Notes -- Appendix 3. Tenancy -- Notes -- Appendix 4. The Minimum Age for Military Service -- Notes -- Appendix 5. The Proportion of Assidui in the Roman Population -- Notes -- Appendix 6. The Duration of Military Service in the Second Century B.C. -- Notes -- Appendix 7. The Number of Citizen Deaths as a Result of Military Service between 203 and 168 B.C. -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B-C -- D -- E-F -- G-H -- I-L -- M -- N-P -- Q-S -- T-U -- V-W -- Y-Z.
Content:
Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic.The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often had a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Did, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the social crisis of the later second century B.C.? Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare had critical demographic consequences that have gone unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped sustain a dramatic increase in the birthrate, ultimately leading to overpopulation and landlessness.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-319) and index
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Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Agriculture in Italy from Hannibal to Tiberius Gracchus; 2. War and Agriculture: A Critique of the Conventional View; 3. War and the Life Cycles of Families: Three Models; 4. Mortality in War; 5. Military Mortality and Agrarian Crisis; Appendix 1. The Number of Roman Slaves in 168 B.C.; Appendix 2. The Accuracy of the Roman Calendar before 218 B.C.; Appendix 3. Tenancy; Appendix 4. The Minimum Age for Military Service; Appendix 5. The Proportion of Assidui in the Roman Population
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Appendix 6. The Duration of Military Service in the Second Century B.C.Appendix 7. The Number of Citizen Deaths as a Result of Military Service between 203 and 168 B.C.; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807864104
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807828397
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Rosenstein, Nathan Rome at war Chapel Hill, NC [u.a.] : Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004 ISBN 0807828394
Additional Edition:
Print version Rome at War : Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Geschichte 510 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr.
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