The demography of Roman Italy : population dynamics in an ancient conquest society, 201 BCE-14 CE /

The demography of Roman Italy : population dynamics in an ancient conquest society, 201 BCE-14 CE /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hin, Saskia, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : graphs, 3 maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Mortality -- Italy -- History. Fertility, Human -- Italy -- History. Migration, Internal -- Italy -- History. Fertility, Human. Migration, Internal. Mortality. Population. Italy -- Population -- History. Italy. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831528

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ISBN:	9781107314023 110731402X 9780511782305 0511782306 9781107308473 110730847X 9781107306271 1107306272 9781107003934 1107003938 9781299008922 1299008925 1107302285 9781107302280 1107305446 9781107305441 1107311829 9781107311824
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed May 11, 2017).
Summary:	"This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic, climatic and social conditions in a period of intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the evidence on the demographic toll taken by warfare and rising societal complexity leads her to a revisionist 'middle count' scenario of population development in Italy. In tracing the population history of an ancient conquest society, she provides an accessible pathway into Roman demography which focuses on the three main demographic parameters - mortality, fertility and migration. She unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Tables, figures and maps enable readers to visualise the quantitative dynamics at work"--
Other form:	Print version: Hin, Saskia, 1980- Demography of Roman Italy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107003934

Table of Contents:

Part I: Economic and ecological parameters
Introduction
Framing the economic setting
Climate and climatic change
Part II: The demographic parameters
Mortality
Fertility
Migration
Part III: Population size
Counting Romans
Archaeology and population. Demography from potshards?
Summary and conclusion
Appendix 1: Known Roman census figures for the period 508 BCE-48 CE
Appendix 2: Calculations of multiplier for scenarios I, II, and III in table 7.3