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  • Reframing the Roman Economy

    New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices

    Edited by Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • The World of Pompeii

    Edited by Pedar Foss ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the up-to-date findings of recent archaeological work ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

    The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Edited by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing ...
    The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Roman Italy

    Edited by Alison E. Cooley ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman ItalyContributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the ... Read more

    $200.99 CAD

  • The Etruscan World

    Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy

    Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems

    by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times

    People, Places, Identities

    Edited by Margarita Gleba, Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke ...
    Series Book 13 - Ancient Textiles
    Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions andMaking Textiles in pre-Roman and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Textile Research Series
    Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death and Changing Rituals

    Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices

    Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Håkon Roland, Marina Prusac ...
    Series series Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy

    Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture

    by Paolo Squatriti ...
    This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Dignity of Labour

    Work and Identity in the Roman World

    by Dr Iain Ferris ...
    This is the first book to present an analysis of images of working people in Roman society and to interpret their meaning and significance. What did work mean to the Romans? Numerous incidental illustrations of agricultural workers occur in Roman artworks, particularly mosaic pavements. More significantly, the names and trades of many individual working people, artisans, and professionals are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD