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224 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521560061
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10 October 1996
Description
This book studies the growth of the city of Rome and the effects of the city's demands for food and migrants on the economy of Italy. It seeks to question the idea that all great cities, especially in the ancient world, were parasites on the socie...
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224 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521560061
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10 October 1996
Description
This book studies the growth of the city of Rome and the effects of the city's demands for food and migrants on the economy of Italy. It seeks to question the idea that all great cities, especially in the ancient world, were parasites on the socie...