Check order status

Become part of a community of book lovers from all over the world and get access to a whole bunch of benefits. Create an account for free

Austrian Post 5.49 € DPD courier 3.99 € DPD point 2.99 €

Contact

How to shop

Help

My account

▸ Empty :-(

Surviving Rome

Name: Surviving Rome
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 46985519
Price: 45.19 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Kim Bowes
ISBN: 9780691273334

Kim Bowes

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 46985519

Publishers Princeton University Press, December 2025

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman ec... Full description

Libristo code: 46985519

111 b

45.19 € VAT included

In stock at our supplier Shipping in 3-5 days

Delivery to Austria

30-day return policy

Customers also purchased

Wybór pism literackich Wójcicki Kazimierz Władysław

Paperback

10.49 €

Skazany McFadden Freida

Paperback

10.19 €

Hugo von Hofmannsthals Elektra im Hinblick auf die Zusammenarbeit mit Max Reinhardt Harald Kienzler

Paperback

17.95 €

Phonetique essentielle du francais b1/b2 - livre + didierfle.app CHANÉZE/ RIPAUD

Paperback

22.29 €

Zmierzchanie świata Herzog Werner

Hardback

8.89 €

Irgendwas mit Wuppertal Torsten Buchheit

Paperback

9.90 €

Ukryty potencjał Grant Adam

Paperback

16.89 €

Document 2025 Jordan Bardella

Paperback

32.29 €

Objawienia w Montichiari. Róża duchowna, przesłanie, godzina łaski Goccia di Stelle

Paperback

14.79 €

Allenare il pensiero critico. Riflessioni e attività per innovare la didattica Alessandro Antonini

Paperback

25.79 €

My Generation (Mono) The Who

Audio CD

17.89 €

Artista Leonardo-Boceto y dibujo: Para aprendices Patricia Fernandini

Paperback

27.59 €

Paperback

5.69 €

Und heute fallt der erste Schnee Tara Riedman

Paperback

10.90 €

Everest 1996: crónica de un rescate imposible ANATOLI BUKREEV

Paperback

20.49 €

Jan Svankmajer : la magia de la subversión Gregorio Martín López

Paperback

22.49 €

Duna y Dan Linda Jennings

Paperback

17.39 €

Emprender tu marca personal NURIA COSTA CLARET

Paperback

17.39 €

Abenteuer Deutsch 3 Podrecznik Malgorzata Blaszkowska

Paperback

6.89 €

Um Cafe ao Passado Stefania Gil

Adobe ePub DRM

3.99 €

Bestiaire Du Christ (Le) Abbe Charbonneau-Lassay

Paperback

42.49 €

Le Bro Code pour les parents Kuhn

Book

8.19 €

Venise 8ed Lonely Planet

Paperback

23.09 €

Reksio. Zabawa w chowanego Maria Szarf

Paperback

2.89 €

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor. Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children’s toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans’ most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status. Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.