Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and archaeology. They study the direct impact of Roman rule; the organisation of large agricultural estates; changing patterns of olive production; threats to rural prosperity from pests and the animal world; inter-regional trade in the Black Sea; the significance of civic market buildings; the economic role of temples and...

A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has...

This volume is devoted to the numismatic evidence from the ancient and mediaeval city of Amorium in central Anatolia (Turkey). Section 1 discusses the city mint of Amorium, illustrated by a chronological and typological catalogue of known specimens. Sections 2 and 3 are a catalogue of some 730 coins that have been found at the site between 1987 and 2006. The finds confirm the city's enduring importance as the capital of the Anatolic Theme.

A comprehensive study of the Roman monetary system in the Eastern provinces during the Principate.