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Shopping in Ancient Rome
Claire Holleran
其他書名
The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate
出版OUP Oxford, 2012-04-26
主題Business & Economics / Consumer BehaviorBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Industries / RetailingHistory / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / RomePhilosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & ClassicalSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN019969821X9780199698219
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oO7NwmbyxwAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies. Given the remarkable concentration of consumers in ancient Rome, the vast majority of which were entirely reliant on the market for survival, a functioning retail trade was vital to the survival of Rome in the late Republic and the Principate. In this volume Holleran provides the first systematic account of Rome's retail sector through a comprehensive analysis of the literary, legal, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence together with wide-ranging and innovative comparative studies of the distributive trades. Investigating the diverse means by which goods were sold to consumers in the city, and the critical relationship between retail and broader environmental factors, Holleran places Roman retail trade firmly within the wider context of its urban economy. In considering the roles played by shops, workshops, markets, fairs, auctions, street sellers, and ambulant vendors in the distribution of goods to the inhabitants of the city, the volume sheds new light on the experience of living in the ancient city and explores the retail trade of Rome in its totality.