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Author : Morris Silver
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000007715737
Author : Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702846
The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through entrepreneurs, the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial super-powers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial.
Author : Edward Lipiński
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9070192039
(Peeters 1979)
Author : Morris Silver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313031335
The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights). The analysis of transaction costs provides insights into many characteristics of the ancient economy, such as the important role of the sacred and symbolic gestures in making contracts, magical technology, the entrepreneurial role of high-born women, the elevation of familial ties and other departures from impersonal economics, reliance on slavery and adoption, and the insatiable drive to accumulate trust-capital. The peculiar behavior patterns and mindsets of ancient economic man are shown to be facilitators of economic growth. In recent years, our view of the economy of the ancient world has been shaped by the theories of Karl Polanyi. Silver confronts Polanyi's empirical propositions with the available evidence and demonstrates that antiquity knew active and sophisticated markets. In the course of providing an alternative analytical framework for studying the ancient economy, Silver gives critical attention to the economic views of the Assyriologists I.M. Diakonoff, W.F. Leemans, Mario Liverani, and J.N. Postgate; of the Egyptologists Jacob J. Janssen and Wolfgang Helck; and of the numerous followers of Moses Finley. Silver convincingly demonstrates that the ancient world was not static: periods of pervasive economic regulation by the state are interspersed with lengthy periods of relatively unfettered market activity, and the economies of Sumer, Babylonia, and archaic Greece were capable of transforming themselves in order to take advantage of new opportunities. This new synthesis is essential reading for economic historians and researchers of the ancient Near East and Greece.
Author : Mario Liverani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134750849
The Ancient Near East reveals three millennia of history (c. 3500–500 bc) in a single work. Liverani draws upon over 25 years’ worth of experience and this personal odyssey has enabled him to retrace the history of the peoples of the Ancient Near East. The history of the Sumerians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians and more is meticulously detailed by one of the leading scholars of Assyriology. Utilizing research derived from the most recent archaeological finds, the text has been fully revised for this English edition and explores Liverani’s current thinking on the history of the Ancient Near East. The rich and varied illustrations for each historical period, augmented by new images for this edition, provide insights into the material and textual sources for the Ancient Near East. Many highlight the ingenuity and technological prowess of the peoples in the Ancient East. Never before available in English, The Ancient Near East represents one of the greatest books ever written on the subject and is a must read for students who will not have had the chance to explore the depth of Liverani’s scholarship.
Author : Michael Hudson,Marc Van de Mieroop
Publisher : Islet-Verlag
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054431179
History and analysis of the economic and social development of debt, interest-bearing loans, royal remission of debts, and economic renewal policies.
Author : Catherine Breniquet,Ccile Michel
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976318
The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, different societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played an important economic role. The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region, where large-scale textile production began during the second half of the 3rd millennium. By placing emphasis on the development of multi-disciplinary methodologies, experimentation and use of archaeological evidence combined with ancient textual sources, the wide-ranging contributions explore a number of key themes. These include: the first uses of wool in textile manufacture and organization of weaving; trade and exchange; the role of wool in institutionalized economies; and the reconstruction of the processes that led to this first form of industry in Antiquity. The numerous archaeological and written sources provide an enormous amount of data on wool, textile crafts, and clothing and these inter-disciplinary studies are beginning to present a comprehensive picture of the economic and cultural impact of woollen textiles and textile manufacturing on formative ancient societies.
Author : Andrew Monson,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107089204
The first ever global survey of tax systems and their social and political contexts in premodern world history.
Author : Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782977582
This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market development. The book also presents innovative approaches to the quantitative study of large corpora of ancient documents. The resulting view of the Ancient Economy is much more variegated and dynamic than traditional ïprimitivistÍ views would allow. The volume covers the following topics: Babylonian house size data as an index of urban living standards; the Old Babylonian archives as a source for economic history; Middle Bronze Age long distance trade in Anatolia; long-term economic development in Babylonia from the 7th to the 4th century BC; legal institutions and agrarian change in the Roman Empire; papyrological evidence for water-lifting technology; money circulation and monetization in Late Antique Egypt; the application of Social Network Analysis to Babylonian cuneiform archives; price trends in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the effects of locust plagues on prices.
Author : Michael Hudson,Baruch A. Levine
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019343164
The International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economics, no. 1 Essays on the development of private landownership and its socio-political factors in ancient Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Phoenicia, and Palestine.
Author : Joseph Gilbert Manning,Ian Morris
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804757550
Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed very different methods of analysis for each region. This book marks the first time that historians and archaeologists of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome have come together with sociologists, political scientists, and economists, to ask whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences in the past, or are merely a function of variations in the surviving evidence and the intellectual traditions that have grown up around it. The contributors describe the types of evidence available and demonstrate the need for clearer thought about the relationships between evidence and models in ancient economic history, laying the foundations for a new comparative account of economic structures and growth in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520024362
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Author : Jana Mynářová,Sergio Alivernini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8073089912
19 essays collected in this publication elucidate the emergence, transmission, and interaction of economic structures and management of recourses during the second half of the third, and especially in the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
Author : Matthew J. M. Coomber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532657986
Over the past few decades biblical economics has developed into an important subfield of biblical studies. Through examining the economic realities that lay behind Hebrew biblical texts and archaeological findings, biblical economics has led to greater understandings of the cultures and experiences of ancient Hebrew communities, the legal and religious texts they produced, and of how those texts may or may not relate to the experiences of communities who continue to receive them, today. Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East has brought together ten scholars of biblical economics and one economic anthropologist to create a repository of what is understood about the economic realities of Southwest Asia in the late second and first millennia BCE. In addition to furthering the research and teaching interests of biblical scholars, this volume has also been created for the benefit of economic historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Author : Marcella Frangipane,Monika Poettinger,Bertram Schefold
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031087639
This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions by archaeologists, historians of antiquity, economic historians as well as historians of economic thought, it studies various aspects of ancient economies, such as the material living conditions including production technologies, etc.; economic institutions such as markets and coinage; as well as the economic thinking of the time. In the process, it also explores the comparability of economic thought, economic institutions and economic systems in ancient history. Focusing on the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean, including Greece and Rome, this comparative perspective makes it possible to identify historical permanencies, but also diverse forms of social and political organization and cultural systems. These institutions are then evaluated in terms of their capacity to solve economic problems, such as the efficient use of resources or political stability. The first part of the book introduces readers to the methodological context of the comparative approach, including an evaluation of the related historiographical tradition. Subsequent parts discuss a range of development models, elements of economic thinking in ancient societies, the role of trade and globalization, and the use of monetary and financial instruments, as well as political aspects.