In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. wine fermenting.
Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of \'surplus\' makes way for an emphasis on storage\'s material transformations (e.g.
How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia.
In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike