Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200 by Neville Morley

Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200

Neville Morley

224 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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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