Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essays in Social and Economic History

by Peter Garnsey

Book Overview

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521591473
• ISBN13: 9780521591478
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"