The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
62 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Egyptian revolt of AD 172–3 (Dio 72.4). The supporters of Bar Kosiba who, according to letters found in the ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 63 an unruly populace. In other provinces the local ruling class had greater continuity with that of the pre- co ...
64 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Constant suppression of hostile subjects is diffi cult for any imperial power. Romans preferred when possibl ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 65 resistance. In the nature of the evidence such mild opposition can usually only be surmised rather than docum ...
66 THE ROMAN EMPIRE gradually a new sort of Judaism with its own strengths developed from the ashes of defeat.^25 In the diaspor ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 67 ADDENDUM M. Goodman There has not been a great deal of work over the past twenty fi ve years on the general s ...
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We know little in detail about the economy of the Roman world. There are no government accounts, no offi cial records of product ...
72 THE ROMAN EMPIRE In ancient Rome, small- scale handicraft industry was predominant. Some goods were made in quantity, notably ...
AN UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMY 73 sons of freedmen could enter a city council and hold magistracies and priesthoods on the basis of t ...
74 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Methodologies and debates In the revised edition of his Ancient Economy , Moses Finley challenged convention ...
AN UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMY 75 Jones’ argument represents an attempt to evade the problem of the non- existent quantitative data b ...
76 THE ROMAN EMPIRE The argument about the economic activities of the rich is mirrored by, and closely associated with, the deba ...
AN UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMY 77 An argument of Hopkins^11 runs as follows: A ship of 400 tonnes can be calculated, with the aid of ...
78 THE ROMAN EMPIRE metals, wood for fuel and construction, other building materials and clothing, was stimulated by defi cienci ...
AN UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMY 79 prosperous by observers ancient and modern, and for the rich few this was doubtless the case: they ...
80 THE ROMAN EMPIRE labour, or in other other ways, was self- sustaining and resulted in structural change. The inherited framew ...
AN UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMY 81 barrel was making much of an impact, let alone replacing the jar, by the end of our period. As with ...
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