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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2012
      05 April 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139003834
      9781107013186
      9781107519121
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003834
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 408 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 408 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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    Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are: military participation rates; demographic recovery after the Second Punic War; the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms; the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War; emigration from Italy; and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate.

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    '… this is an impressive work of scholarship. It provides a fresh and insightful analysis of the key evidence upon which the debates over the size of the Italian population are based. As well as revising existing theories surrounding the key issues, De Ligt provides a number of thought-provoking comments and analyses throughout which will surely stimulate further debate on a long-standing subject.'

    Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    'There is no doubt that this is an important book, one that every social and economic historian of pre-modern Europe should familiarize themselves with, whatever their period of specialization. All the more so for the ancient historian, to whom the book is explicitly addressed … this book offers a thorough, sophisticated analysis of one of ancient history's most intractable problems, an 'academic battleground' where de Ligt takes sides, elegantly providing new ammunition to his field. The 'low count' should now be renamed as the Beloch-Brunt-de Ligt theory, inasmuch as the book here under review offers a more nuanced reading and addresses successfully some of the more evident weaknesses of the old version of the 'low count' theory.'

    Marco Maiuro Source: Sehepunkte

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