Debating Roman demography /
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In conjection with an extensive critical survey of recent advances and controversies in Roman demography, the four case-studies in this volume illustrate a variety of different approaches to the study of ancient population history. The contributions address a number of crucial issues in Roman demography from the evolution of the academic field to seasonal patterns of fertility, the number of Roman citizens, population pressure in the early Roman empire, and the end of classical urbanism in late antiquity. This is the first collaborative volume of its kind. It is designed to introduce ancient historians and classicists to demographic, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to situate and contextualize Roman population studies in the wider ambit of historical demography.
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1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-235) and index. :
9789004351097 :
0169-8958 ; :
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Studies in Migration : Internal and International Migration in India /
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This book represents a multi-disciplinary attempt to analyze and understand the problems relating to migration, both internal and international. Migration is assuming extremely critical significance in contemporary times in the context of rapid industrialization and economic development. Its significance expands well beyond regional geography, urban planning and housing policies, etc., into problems of law and order, conduct of national integration and management of human relations. Not only demographers and urban specialists, but other social scientists are now finding migration to be an area of absorbing and sustained academic interest. This book brings together twelve essays focussing on the historical, demographic and sociological dimensions of migration. A wide range of migration situations from the rural - rural to international are explored and many conceptual, theoretical and empirical aspects of the phenomenon are explored. The principal focus of analysis throughout is on human aspects of migration - poverty, deprivation and subsistence. The book constitutes by its multi-disciplinary perspective a pioneering contribution to the sociology of migration and will be useful for social scientists as well as administrators, politicians and social workers.
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1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753266
La dependance rurale dans l'antiquite egyptienne et proche-orientale /
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Papers presented at the fourth AIDEA Conference in Banyuls-sur-Mer (France), Oct. 11-12, 2001. :
viii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
2724703839
9782724703832 :
0259-3823 ;
People, land, and politics : demographic developments and the transformation of Roman Italy 300 BC-AD 14 /
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Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically. This volume offers a series of in-depth discussions not only of the republican manpower and census figures but also of the abundant archaeological data. It also explores the growth of cities, especially Rome, and the changing distribution of the population over the Italian landscape. On the rural side it addresses the interplay between demographic, economic, and legal developments and the background to the Gracchan land reforms. Finally it examines the political implications of demographic growth and large-scale migration to the provinces. The volume as a whole demonstrates that demography is the key to many aspects of Italy's economic, social, military, and political history.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047424499 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.