The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Naval Perspective

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In The Political Economy of Classical Athens - a Naval Perspective, Barry O'Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic efflorescence. ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Figures, Tables and Graphs ‎Figures ‎Tables ‎Graph ‎Introduction ‎Chapter 1. Primitive Positions—the Oikos Debate ‎1. The Defining Quartet—Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley ‎2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley ‎Chapter 2. New Perspectives ‎1. Institutions—the Engines of History ‎2. Materialist Man and His Motivations ‎3. The Only Constant is Change ‎4. Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation ‎5. The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences ‎Chapter 3. Warfare States ‎1. Path Dependence ‎2. The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis ‎3. The Spartan Naval Mirage ‎Chapter 4. War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes ‎1. The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy ‎2. Emerging Patterns of War ‎3. Strategy ‎4. Early Athenian Expansionism ‎5. The Transition to Triremes ‎6. Private to Polis Navies ‎Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Transition—the Naval Evidence ‎1. Athens’ ‘Turn to the Sea’ ‎2. Casus Belli ‎3. The Athenian Naval Revolution ‎4. Themistocles’ Naval Expansion ‎Chapter 6. Money, Markets and Naval Procurement ‎1. Coinage, Silver and Money Supply ‎2. Trireme Costs and Lifespan ‎3. Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement ‎4. Provisioning the Fleet—a Network of Markets ‎Chapter 7. Naval Institutions—Trierarchy ‎1. The Rules of the Game ‎2. Liturgy—Delivering Public Goods ‎3. Trierarchy—Delivering the Fleet ‎4. Trierarchy in Theory and Practice ‎5. Trierarchy—Institutional Evolution ‎6. Cleruchy—Further Institutional Adaptation ‎Chapter 8. Naval Innovation ‎1. The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy ‎2. Naval Technological Innovation—the Ram ‎3. Greek Innovation in Nautical Design ‎Chapter 9. Naval Defence Infrastructure ‎1. Shipsheds ‎2. The Athenian Circuit Walls ‎3. The Piraeus ‎4. The Long Walls ‎5. Estimating the Costs ‎Chapter 10. Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens ‎1. Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence ‎2. Schools of Democracy ‎3. Athenian Trireme Crews ‎4. Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves ‎5. The Trireme School of Democracy ‎Chapter 11. The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy ‎1. Economic Growth ‎2. Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets ‎3. The Athenian Labour Market ‎4. The Naval Economy ‎5. Size Matters ‎Chapter 12. The Wealth of Naval Athens ‎1. The Versatile Trireme ‎2. Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments ‎3. The Business of Empire ‎4. Costs of War ‎5. Ancient Athenian Keynesians ‎Conclusions ‎Appendix: Sources ‎Bibliography ‎Index