Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy

Series Editors: A.K. Bowman, A.I. Wilson

In connection with the Oxford Roman Economy Project, Oxford University Press has agreed to inaugurate a series of publications under the general title Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy (OSRE).

The OSRE series consists of edited volumes as well as monographs. Currently, two edited volumes have appeared - consisting of papers presented at OXREP conferences in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Three subsequent volumes of this sort are currently in preparation, bringing together the proceedings of the other colloquia organised by the project. Further, two monographs have been accepted for publication in this series by OUP.

The OUP and the editors intend that the series should have a life above and beyond the limits of the project and are keen to encourage the submission of book-length manuscripts on appropriate subjects in the general area of the Roman economy. These need not be confined to the constraints of subject-matter or chronology defined for the Oxford project itself. More information about how to submit a book proposal can be found in the Guidelines for authors section

Current titles in the OSRE Series

1. Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems, ed. Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson (OUP, 25 June 2009) [more info].
2. Settlement, Urbanization and Population, ed. Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson (OUP, December 2011) [more info].
3. The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organisation, Investment and Production, ed. Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson (in preparation)
4. Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World, ed. Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman (in preparation)
5. Mining, Metal Supply and Coinage in the Roman Empire, ed. A. I. Wilson and A. K. Bowman (in preparation)
6. The Stone Trade and the Roman Imperial Economy, Ben Russell (accepted for publication).
7. The World of the Fullo. Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy, Miko Flohr (in press).

Several other titles are currently under consideration.

Quantifying the Roman Economy. Methods and Problems
Editors: Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson
376 pages | 43 figures | 216x138mm 978-0-19-956259-6 | Hardback | 25 June 2009 | Oxford University Press

This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created the conditions for the integration of agriculture, production, trade, and commerce across the regions of the empire. Using the evidence of both documents and archaeology, the contributors suggest how we can derive a quantified account of economic growth and contraction in the period of the empire's greatest extent and prosperity.

This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in Italy, Spain, Britain, Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor from classical Greece to the early Byzantine period. The chapters fall into two main groups, the first dealing with the evidence for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological field surveys, and the attendant methodological problems of extrapolating from that evidence a view of population; and the second with city populations and the phenomenon of urbanization. They proceed to consider hierarchies of settlement in the characteristic classical pattern of city plus territory, and the way in which those entities are defined from the highest to the lowest level: the empire as 'city of Rome plus territory', then regional and local hierarchies, and, more precisely, the identity and the nature of the 'instruments' which enables them to function in economic cohesion.

The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organisation, Investment and Production
Edited by A. K. Bowman and A. I. Wilson
Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 3. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

This volume will publish the papers of the OXREP conference on The Agricultural Economy: Production and Consumption.
It has been submitted to the publisher, and publication is expected in 2012.

Trade, Commerce and the State in the Roman World
Edited by A. I. Wilson and A. K. Bowman
Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 4. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Volume 4 will publish the papers of the OXREP conference on Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World held in October 2009. This volume is being edited ready for submission to the publisher.

Mining, Metal Supply and Coinage in the Roman Empire
Edited by A. I. Wilson and A. K. Bowman
Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 5. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Volume 5 will publish the papers of the OXREP conference on Metals, Mining and Coinage in the Roman World held on October 1-2, 2010. Contributions are currently being edited.

The Stone Trade and the Roman Imperial Economy (working title)
By Ben Russell
Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy, Oxford University Press

This monograph will examine the stone trade in the Roman imperial period, focusing on the demand for stone for artistic and architectural production, and the evidence for quarrying and transport. It has been accepted for publication by OUP and is currently being edited ready for submission to the press.

The World of the Fullo. Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy
By Miko Flohr
Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford

This monograph will provide an analysis of the social and economic worlds in which the fullers of Roman Italy lived and operated based on a study of the material remains of fulling workshops and of the epigraphic and literary references to fullers.
The book is in press and will appear late 2012 or early 2013.