Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire.

Intro -- Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1: Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire -- 2: The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment -- 3: Seasonal Labour and Rural-Urban Migration in Roman Italy -- 4: Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome -- 5: Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared -- 6: Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia -- 7: State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries -- 8: Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire -- 9: Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West -- 10: Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World -- 11: Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens -- 12: Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities -- 13: Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women's Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources -- 14: Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives -- 15: Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East -- 16: Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains -- 17: Movers and Stayers -- References -- Index.

In Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire seventeen specialists in the fields of Roman social history, Roman demography and Roman economic history offer fresh perspectives on voluntary, state-organised and forced mobility during the first to early third centuries CE.

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