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Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early modern period. This volume focuses on how the institutional structure of the Roman Empire affected economic performance both positively and negatively. An international range of contributors offers a variety of approaches that together enhance our understanding of how different ownership rights and various modes of organization and exploitation facilitated or prevented the use of land and natural resources in the production process. Relying on a large array of resources - literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological - chapters address key questions regarding the foundations of the Roman Empire's economic system. Questions of growth, concentration and legal status of property (private, public, or imperial), the role of the state, content and limitations of rights of ownership, water rights and management, exploitation of indigenous populations, and many more receive new and original analyses that make this book a significant step forward to understanding what made the economic achievements of the Roman empire possible.

List of Contributors ; List of Figures ; 1. Introduction: Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World in Historiographical and Theoretical Perspective ; 2. Agriculture, Division of Labour, and the Paths to Economic Growth ; PART I: OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL ; 3. Landed Wealth in the Long Term: Patterns, Possibilities, Evidence ; 4. The Development of Imperial Property ; 5. Imperial Wealth in Roman Egypt: The Julio-Claudian ousiai ; 6. Property Rights over Land and Economic Growth in the Roman Empire ; 7. Ownership and Control: Property Rights and Insitutional Arrangements ; 8. Water Use and Productivity in Roman Agriculture: Selling, Sharing, Servitudes ; 9. Control and Management of Water in Ostrogothic Italy ; PART II: ORGANIZATION AND MODES OF EXPLOITATION ; 10. The Nature of the Villa Economy ; 11. The Variety of Villa Production: From Agriculture to Aquaculture ; 12. The African Boom: The Origins of Economic Growth in Roman North Africa ; 13. The Local Economy of Palmyra: Organizing Agriculture in an Oasis Environment ; 14. Changes in Animal Husbandry as a Consequence of Changing Social and Economic Patterns: Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Roman Mediterranean Context ; PART III: EXPLOITATION AND PROCESSING ; 15. Salt in Asia Minor: An Outline of Roman Authority Interest in the Resource ; 16. Imperial Quarries and the Emperor ; 17. The Mining, Minting, and Obtaining of Gold in the Roman Empire ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Index

Author(s)	Edited by Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, Arjan Zuiderhoek.
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN	9780198728924
Format	Hardback
Pages	440
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	2 Jul 2015
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