Migration and mobility in the early Roman Empire

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.

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.

"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"--