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Author: L. de Ligt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1107013186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book re-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history.
Author: Alessandro Launaro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1107004799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical interdisciplinary reappraisal of the agrarian background to the political events which shaped the destiny of Rome (from Republic to Empire). The book actively builds upon the textual and archaeological evidence to trace the fate of the Italian rural free population during a crucial period of its history.
Author: Steele Brand
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1421429861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
Author: Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1784781975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with influential arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.
Author: Luuk de Ligt
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781107308619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRe-assesses the military, social and economic history of Roman Italy from the angle of population history.
Author: Luuk de Ligt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1107310857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent 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.
Author: Dominic Lieven
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 952
ISBN-13: 0141947446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.
Author: David M. Hopkin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0861932587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Concentrating on the militarised borderlands of eastern France, this book examines the disjuncture between the patriotic expectations of elites and the sentiments expressed in folksongs, folktales and popular imagery, in which issues of sexuality, violence and separation took far greater prominence. Hopkin follows the soldier through his life-cycle, from greenhorn recruit to grizzled veteran, to show how the peasant conscript was separated from his previous life and re-educated in military mores (and the response that this transformation elicited from his family and community)."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Saskia Hin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107003938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates demographic behaviour and population trends in Italy during the emergence of the Roman Empire. It unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Also featured is a chapter on climate change in Roman times.
Author: Florencia E. Mallon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0520914678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle. With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism. Placing it squarely within the struggles for power between colonized and colonizing peoples, she argues that nationalism must be seen not as an integrated ideology that puts the interest of the nation above all other loyalties, but as a project for collective identity over which many political groups and coalitions have struggled. Ambitious and bold, Peasant and Nation both draws on monumental archival research in two countries and enters into spirited dialogue with the literatures of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and peasant studies.
