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Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22–24 February 2007

By Daniel J. Pullen

Book information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2010
ISBN
1842173928, 9781842173923
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12365580 bytes)
Pages
vi+266\273
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-08-14 18:43:23
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Description

This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of centralization and multiple scales of production, distribution, and consumption within a polity; importance of extraregional trade; craft specialization; the role of non-elite institutions, and the political economy before the emergence of the palaces. The contributors address these issues from an explicitly comparative perspective, both within and across Minoan and Mycenaean contexts. The conclusions reached in this volume shed new light on the essential differences between and among "Minoan" and "Mycenaean" states through their political economies.

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