Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200 by Neville Morley
Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200
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Neville Morley
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Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200

Neville Morley

224 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

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Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it. Rome's huge population was maintained not by trade ...

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