The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History

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Edited by W.V. Harris, Columbia University

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William V. Harris

Subject: 
Classical Studies›Ancient History
History›Environmental History
ISBN13: 
9789004253438
E-ISBN: 
9789004254053
Publication Date: 
July 2013
Copyright Year: 
2013
Format: 
Hardback
Publication Type: 
Book
Imprint: 
BRILL
Language: 
English
Main Series: 
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
ISSN: 
0166-1302
Volume: 
39
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Biographical note

W.V. Harris is Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University. He has written widely about the social, psychological, and economic history of the Graeco-Roman world, and about Roman imperialism. In 2011 he published Rome's Imperial Economy.

Contributors: Edward R. Cook, W.V. Harris, Duncan Keenan-Jones, Paula Kouki, Paolo Malanima, Sturt W. Manning, Michael McCormick, Paola Romano, Maria Rosaria Ruello, Elda Russo Ermolli, Robyn Veal, and Andrew Wilson.

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All interested in current directions in environmental history, and in the history of the Mediterranean, especially in Greek and Roman times.
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