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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

By Walter Scheidel , Ian Morris , Richard P. Saller

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521780535, 9780521780537
LCC
HC37 .C36 2007
Google Books ID
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Open Library ID
OL18505384M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6430528 bytes)
Pages
935\935
Topic
History
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 developed, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. This important work represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.

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