UPC: 9783031062803 | Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies: Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices (Hardcover)

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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 studied through its macro-economic and large-scale – and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent – aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections covering unusual actors and perspectives unusual places of production exigent landscapes of exploitation less-visible products and artefacts and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions.