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Emma Dench: Power to the Plebs, 5 November 2026
Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the 90 Per Cent
by Kim Bowes.
Princeton, 512 pp., £35, January,978 0 691 27333 4 Show More
by Kim Bowes.
Princeton, 512 pp., £35, January,
Strike: Labour, Unions and Resistance in the Roman Empire
by Sarah E. Bond.
Yale, 272 pp., £12.99, February,978 0 300 28859 9 Show More
by Sarah E. Bond.
Yale, 272 pp., £12.99, February,
“... turned leaders of nations (including Vercingetorix, whose story was an inspiration for Asterix).Kim Bowes’s Surviving Rome explores working people’s economic experiences and their approaches to surviving, and sometimes thriving, in the heyday of the empire. Sarah E. Bond’s Strike is an alternative history of Rome that foregrounds the various ... ”
