Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa
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christian history
christian north africa
christianity
church history
class differences
conquest
cultural history
economic interests
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historical
history buffs
imperialism
islam
lower classes
nonfiction
north africa
peasant society
peasants
political
postcolonial perspective
regional history
religious history
roman population
roman world
rustici
social classes
social history
urbani
village settings
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- ISBN 9780520254398
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the gap between the rustici and the urbani, creating a consumer revolution of sorts among the peasants. This book's postcolonial perspective points to the empowerment of the North African peasants and gives voice to lower social classes across the Roman world.
Leslie Dossey is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago.
