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Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world: responses to risk and crisis

Garnsey, Peter.

Year: 1988.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Abbreviations

Maps

I. The Incidence and Severity of Food Crisis

1. Famine and Shortage

2. The Frequency of Food Crisis

3. The Infrequency of Famine

II. Survival Strategies

4 Subsistence and Survival: the Peasantry

5. Supply and distribution: urban communities

III. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Athens c.600-322 BC

6. The Resources of Attica

7. The Beginnings of Dependence

8. Rulers of the Sea

9. Vulnerability and Vigilance

10 From Uncertainty to Crisis

IV. Food Supply and Food Crisis in Rome c.509 BC- AD 250

11 The Beginnings of Empire

12 Rulers of the Mediterranean

13 Food and Politics

14 Rulers of the World

15 The Subjects of Rome

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world : responses to risk and crisis Peter Garnsey.

Author:

Garnsey, Peter

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Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world : responses to risk and crisis Peter Garnsey.
Garnsey, Peter
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01445

Subject Headings:

• Food supply -- Greece -- History
• Food supply -- Italy -- Rome -- History
• Famines -- Greece -- History
• Famines -- Italy -- Rome -- History

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