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Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World : Responses to Risk and Crisis

by: Garnsey, P.

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Category: Ancient Economic History / Economic Studies / Prehistoric-Greek-Roman-Byzantine
Code: 11060
ISBN-13: 9780521351980 / 978-0-521-35198-0
ISBN-10: 0521351987 / 0-521-35198-7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 303
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 1988

 The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, but also illuminates the institutional response to food crisis in the mass of ordinary cities in the Mediterranean world.

Part I. The Incidence and Severity of Food Crisis: Famine and shortage ; The frequency of food crisis ; The infrequency of famine
Part II. Survival Strategies: Subsistence and survival: the peasantry ; Supply and distribution : urban communities
Part III. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Athens c. 600-322 BC ; The resources of Attica ; The beginnings of dependence ; Rulers of the sea ; Vulnerability and vigilance ; From uncertainty to crisis
Part IV. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Rome c. 509 BC-AD 250 ; The beginnings of empire ; Rulers of the Mediterranean ; Food and politics ; Rulers of the world ; The subjects of Rome

Subjects:
Aliments Approvisionnement Grèce Antiquité
Aliments Approvisionnement Grèce Histoire
Aliments Approvisionnement Rome
Aliments Approvisionnement Rome Histoire
Famines
Famines Greece History
Famines Greece History To 1500
Famines Grèce Antiquité
Famines Grèce Histoire
Famines Rome
Famines Rome Histoire
Famines Rome History
Food Supply history
Food supply
Food supply Greece
Food supply Greece History
Food supply Greece History To 1500
Food supply Rome
Food supply Rome History
Greece
Greece Social conditions
Greek World
Grèce Politique sociale Antiquité
History
Hongersnood
Klassieke oudheid
Mediterranean region Famines, to ca 300
Roman World
Rome (Empire)
Rome Politique sociale
Rome Social conditions
To 1500
Voedselvoorziening

xiv, 303 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm

 
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