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Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East - Oxford Studies in Byzantium Decker, Michael (, Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History and Orthodox Religion, University of South Florida)
Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East - Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Decker, Michael (, Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History and Orthodox Religion, University of South Florida)
A study of the agrarian landscape and economy of the late-antique eastern Mediterranean. Michael Decker describes the ways in which Roman farmers succeeded in producing food surpluses, fuelling a surge in population and a flowering of cultural expression and economic prosperity in the century before the arrival of Islam.
356 pages, 21 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 4, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199565283 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 242 × 24 mm · 703 g |
| Language | English |