Constructing communities in the late Roman countryside /
"This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: studying rural communities in the Late Roman world
- 1. Constituting communities: peasants, families, households
- 2. What really matters: risk, reciprocity, and reputation
- 3. Small politics: making decisions, managing tension, mediating conflict
- 4. Power as a competitive exercise: potentates and communities
- 5. Resistance, negotiation, and indifference: communities and potentates
- 6. Creating communities: taxation and collective responsibility
- 7. Unintended consequences: taxation, power, and communal conflict
- Conclusions.