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Recent 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

With contributions by J.A. Ankum, O. Behrends, G.C.J.J. v.d. Bergh, A.M.J.A Berkvens, Th.E. v. Bochove, F.J. Bruinsma, R. Feenstra, R. Forrez A.Fl. Gehlen, F.W. Grosheide, J. Hellebeek, M.L. Hewett, J.B.M. van Hoek, A.M. Hol, E. Hondius, C.J.H. Jansen, R. Knütel, C. de Koninck, C. Krampe, B. Kupisch, L. de Ligt, J.H.A. Lokin, J. Menner, O. Moorman van Kappen, P.L. Nève, C.H. van Rhee, E.J.H. Schrage, A.J.B. Sirks, E. Slob, B.H. Stolte, R. Verstegen, M. v.d. Vrugt, A. Wacke, L. Waelkens, T. Wallinga, A. Watson, L.C. Winkel, F.B.J. Wubbe, W.J. Zwalve

Front Matter --Copyright Page --Acknowledgements --Abbreviations --Notes on Contributors --Introduction /Luuk de Ligt and John Bintliff --A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe /Manuel Fernández-Götz --The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies /Frida Pellegrino --The Roman 'Small Towns' in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results /Florian Baret --Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France) /Frédéric Trément, Florian Baret, Marion Dacko, Jérôme Trescarte, Maxime Calbris, Lise Augustin and Guy Massounie --Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and 'Resignation' of the Newcomers /Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez --The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy /Frank Vermeulen --The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily /Luuk de Ligt --Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird's-Eye View /Matthew Hobson --A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism /David Stone --Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa /Paul Scheding --Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the 'Small Municipia' in the Balkan and Danube Provinces /Damjan Donev --Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin /Dragana Mladenović --Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace /Michalis Karambinis --Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor /Rinse Willet --From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia /Frank Kolb --Back Matter --Index.

"Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility. Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth Bernard, Christer Bruun, Luuk de Ligt, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy Prowse, Saskia Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini"--