Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic

(Part of the Studies in the History of Greece and Rome Series)

by Nathan Rosenstein

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Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469611074

ISBN13:9781469611075

Release Date:March 2013

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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