Settlement, urbanization, and population

• Titel: Settlement, urbanization, and population
• Mitwirkende: Bowman, Alan K. [Hrsg.]
• Mitwirkende: Wilson, Andrew T.
• Verf.angabe: ed. by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson
• Ausgabe: 1st publ.
• Verlagsort: Oxford [u.a.]
• Verlag: Oxford Univ. Press
• Jahr: 2011
• Umfang: XX, 362 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
• Format: 22 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford studies on the roman economy
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke ; Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878851-5
• ISBN: 0-19-960235-2
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960235-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Römisches Reich / (s)Landbevölkerung / (s)Verstädterung / (z)Geschichte 100 v. Chr.-350
• Schlagwörter: (g)Mittelmeerraum / (s)Siedlung / (s)Archäologie / (z)Geschichte 100 v. Chr.-350
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.: Settlement, urbanization, and population. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource
• RVK-Notation: NH 8550
• RVK-Notation: NK 9400
• RVK-Notation: NH 8420
• Sach-SW: Rural population
• Sach-SW: Urbanization
• Sach-SW: Land settlement patterns
• Sach-SW: Mediterranean Region
• Sach-SW: Mediterranean Region
• K10plus-PPN: 671577913

Abstract

This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in Italy, Spain, Britain, Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor from classical Greece to the early Byzantine period. The chapters fall into two main groups, the first dealing with the evidence for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological field surveys, and the attendant methodological problems of extrapolating from that evidence a view of population; and the second with city populations and the phenomenon of urbanization. They proceed to consider hierarchies of settlement in the characteristic classical pattern of city plus territory, and the way in which those entities are defined from the highest to the lowest level: the empire as 'city of Rome plus territory', then regional and local hierarchies, and, more precisely, the identity and the nature of the 'instruments' which enables them to function in economic cohesion.

Abstract

collection of essays presenting new analyses of data and evidence for population and settlement patterns, particularly urbanization, in the Mediterranean world from 100 BC to AD 350.