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The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world / edited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, Richard Saller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: xiv, 942 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781107673076 (pbk.)
  • 1107673070 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Economic history of the Greco-Roman world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.937 23
LOC classification:
  • HC37 .C36 2013
Contents:
Introduction / Ian Morris, Richard Saller and Walter Scheidel. -- Part I. Determinants of Economic Performance. Ecology / Robert Sallares ; Demography / Walter Scheidel ; Household and gender / Richard Saller ; Law and economic institutions / Bruce W. Frier and Dennis P. Kehoe ; Technology / Helmuth Schneider. -- Part II. Early Mediterranean Economies and the Near East. The Aegean Bronze Age / John Bennet ; Early Iron Age Greece / Ian Morris ; The Early Iron Age in the western Mediterranean / Michael Dietler ; Archaic Greece / Robin Osborne ; The Persian Near East / Peter R. Bedford. -- Part III. Classical Greece. Classical Greece: production / John K. Davies ; Classical Greece: distribution / Astrid Moller ; Classical Greece: consumption / Sitta von Reden. -- Part IV. The Hellenistic States. The Hellenistic Near East / Robartus J. van der Spek ; Hellenistic Egypt / Joseph G. Manning ; Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor / Gary Reger. -- Part V. Early Italy and the Roman Republic. Early Rome and Italy / Jean-Paul Morel ; The Late Republic / William V. Harris. -- Part VI. The Early Roman Empire. The early Roman empire: production / Dennis P. Kehoe ; The early Roman empire: distribution / Neville Morley ; The early Roman empire: consumption / Willem M. Jongman ; The early Roman empire: the state and the economy / Elio Lo Cascio. -- Part VII. Regional Development in the Roman Empire. The western provinces / Philippe Leveau ; The eastern Mediterranean / Susan E. Alcock ; Roman Egypt / Dominic W. Rathbone ; The frontier zones / David Cherry. -- Part VIII. Epilogue. transition to late antiquity / Andrea Giardina.
Summary: "In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible."--Publisher's website.
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Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 769-917) and index.

Introduction / Ian Morris, Richard Saller and Walter Scheidel. -- Part I. Determinants of Economic Performance. Ecology / Robert Sallares ; Demography / Walter Scheidel ; Household and gender / Richard Saller ; Law and economic institutions / Bruce W. Frier and Dennis P. Kehoe ; Technology / Helmuth Schneider. -- Part II. Early Mediterranean Economies and the Near East. The Aegean Bronze Age / John Bennet ; Early Iron Age Greece / Ian Morris ; The Early Iron Age in the western Mediterranean / Michael Dietler ; Archaic Greece / Robin Osborne ; The Persian Near East / Peter R. Bedford. -- Part III. Classical Greece. Classical Greece: production / John K. Davies ; Classical Greece: distribution / Astrid Moller ; Classical Greece: consumption / Sitta von Reden. -- Part IV. The Hellenistic States. The Hellenistic Near East / Robartus J. van der Spek ; Hellenistic Egypt / Joseph G. Manning ; Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor / Gary Reger. -- Part V. Early Italy and the Roman Republic. Early Rome and Italy / Jean-Paul Morel ; The Late Republic / William V. Harris. -- Part VI. The Early Roman Empire. The early Roman empire: production / Dennis P. Kehoe ; The early Roman empire: distribution / Neville Morley ; The early Roman empire: consumption / Willem M. Jongman ; The early Roman empire: the state and the economy / Elio Lo Cascio. -- Part VII. Regional Development in the Roman Empire. The western provinces / Philippe Leveau ; The eastern Mediterranean / Susan E. Alcock ; Roman Egypt / Dominic W. Rathbone ; The frontier zones / David Cherry. -- Part VIII. Epilogue. transition to late antiquity / Andrea Giardina.

"In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible."--Publisher's website.

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