Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; The productive past: economies beyond agriculture DAVID J. MATTINGLY AND JOHN SALMON; Modelling the ancient economy; Productive to some purpose? The problem of ancient economic growth PAUL MILLETT; Regional productions in early Roman Gaul GREG WOOLF; Leptiminus (Tunisia): a 'producer' city? DAVID J. MATTINGLY, DAVID STONE, LEA STIRLING, NEJIB BEN LAZREG; The fourth factor: managing non-agricultural production in the Roman world JEAN-JACQUES AUBERT; Extraction
Summary
This landmark study moves the debate on from Moses Finley's seminal work on the ancient economy and discusses new evidence and approaches to the subject. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the classical economy
Notes
"Chapters ... derive from papers presented to the Nottingham-Leicester Ancient History Seminar series 1995-7 entitled 'The productive past: economies beyond agriculture in the ancient world'"--Introduction
