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Author : Michael E. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3774941475
Author : Marcella Frangipane,Monika Poettinger,Bertram Schefold
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Peter Fibiger Bang,Mamoru Ikeguchi,Harmut G. Ziche
Publisher : Edipuglia srl
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788872284889
Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies is a collection of essays which focuses on the art of questioning; it is about ideas and analytical experiment. Ancient economic history has developed enormously since the publication of M.I. Finley’s The Ancient Economy in 1973. Much new material has been brought to bear on the debate on the character of economic life in the Greek and Roman world. But, at the same time, discussions have been going round in circles. This is because not enough attention has been given to the questions ancient historians ask and the concepts with which they approach the economy. In this collection, an attempt is made to renew the terms of the debate by presenting a wide variety of new analytical approaches to ancient economic history ranging from literary theory, cross-cultural comparison, statistical analysis of archaeological data to neo-institutional economics and model-building.
Author : Joseph Gilbert Manning,Ian Morris
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Jonathan Valk,Irene Soto Marín
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781479806195
"The studies collected in Ancient Taxation explore the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. Together, the contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy (taxing goods vs. labor, in kind vs. money taxes, direct vs. indirect, internal vs. external, etc.), assessment and collection (particularly over wide geographic areas or at large scale, e.g., by tax farming), compliance, and negotiating the cooperation of social, economic, and political elites or other critical social groups. By assembling such a broad range of studies, the book sheds new light on the commonalities and differences between ancient taxation systems, highlighting how studying taxes can shed light on the fiscal and institutional practices of antiquity. It also provides new impetus for comparative research, both between ancient societies and between ancient and modern extractive practices. This book will be of interest to those studying ancient history, economic history, the history of taxation, or comparative politics and economics"--
Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009249041
The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.
Author : Francesca Fulminante,John William Hanson,Scott G. Ortman,Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889664238
Over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in urbanization and economic development, sparked by the realization that making urban life sustainable is one of the greatest challenges facing us in the 21st century (this is now one of the core sustainable development goals of the United Nations). This has exerted considerable pressure on researchers to come up with more scientific ways of studying urbanism and economic activity over the long run, which has resulted not only in the development of new theoretical frameworks, but also in the collection of vast amounts of data from a range of settings. This has led to the realization that, although there are significant differences between settlements in different settings, there are nonetheless important regularities and commonalities between a diverse group of settlements in range of geographical and historical contexts, including both ancient and modern ones. This suggests that a common feature of settlements is their ability to generate increased social connectivity, greater division of labour and specialization, and enhanced technological invention and innovation, albeit with costs to levels of equality, quality of life, and standards of living, as well as impacts on the environment, which cannot be separated from the emergence of confederations and states and the creation of settlement systems, hierarchies and networks. We believe that this field of enquiry now stands at a critical juncture. Although it is now feasible to talk about many aspects of ancient and modern urbanism with relative confidence, such as the numbers of cities or their sizes, much of the discussion of these themes within historical and archaeological circles has been on a discursive or qualitative level, while it is often difficult to harmonize the different models that have been applied to date into a consistent empirical and theoretical framework. A new approach to settlements throughout different contexts should now be within our grasp, however, thanks to both the ease with which information can be disseminated and the facilities that recent developments in IT offer us to model, analyse, and statistically test data.
Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107142770
The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.
Author : Robyn E. Cutright,Enrique López-Hurtado,Alexander J. Martín
Publisher : Center for Comparative Arch
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781877812880
Thirteen papers by archaeologists from North and South America on the archaeology of coastal Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. The authors have all emphasized comparative approaches to prehispanic societies along the Pacific coast. They give preference neither to high theory nor to case-specific empirical details, but rather attempt to answer theoretically important research questions with appropriate methodologies and empirical datasets--ones that are amenable to a broad comparative view.
Author : Kenneth Hirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108494700
This is the first book written that examines ancient and premodern economies from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.
Author : Sitta Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110604948
The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires. The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections. Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.
Author : Zhuoyuan Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811581632
The book summarizes the 60 year development of economic theories, explaining in detail the features and development of economic theories from 1949 to 1976 and in the reform and opening-up period. The author has made a systematic theoretical analysis on the economic situation from two different stages — before and after China's reform and opening-up, which put forward many unconventional point of view, and it has contributed visionary ideas for the research on China's economy. It provide the readers with a general understanding of the economic trend and development of contemporary China, with many pertinent answer to the practical and concrete problems about China's economy.
Author : Edward M. Harris,David M. Lewis,David Martin Lewis,Mark Woolmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107035881
Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Author : Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432855
This book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes. In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts – from the Bronze Age to colonial times – humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of the human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections. This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look anew at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book a useful resource.