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Production Within and Beyond Imperial Boundaries: Goods, Exchange, and Power in Roman Europe

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Production Within and Beyond Imperial Boundaries: Goods, Exchange, and Power in Roman Europe
 
Creator Wells, Peter S.
 
Description After Rome had conquered much of temperate Europe, the administration directed the establishment of industries important to the maintenance of military and economic control of the new provinces. These included stone quarries, pottery manufactures, and metal industries. Recent research shows that much production was not as centralized as has been believed; diverse industrial sites throughout the provincial landscapes indicate a variety of arrangements for supplying the needs of the empire. In many instances, Roman production systems relied upon indigenous traditions of manufacturing. The provincial economies depended also upon materials collected and processed beyond the imperial frontiers. Analysis of Roman imports in Germany, Scandinavia, and eastern Europe, and of the contexts in which they occur, suggesta that goods produced outside of the empire played a major role in the imperial economy. These commercial links, over which Roman authorities had no effective control, contributed to substantial changes in economics and in social and political configurations in societies beyond the Roman frontier.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 1996-08-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/90
10.5195/jwsr.1996.90
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 2, Issue 1, 1996; 419-443
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/90/102
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Peter S. Wells
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