| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 942 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Ecology / Robert Sallares -- Demography / Walter Scheidel -- Household and gender / Richard P. Saller -- Law and economic institutions / Bruce W. Frier and Dennis P. Kehoe -- Technology / Helmuth Schneider -- The Aegean Bronze Age / John Bennet -- Early Iron Age Greece / Ian Morris -- The Iron Age in the western Mediterranean / Michael Dietler -- Archaic Greece / Robin Osborne -- The Persian Near East / Peter R. Bedford -- Classical Greece : Production / John K. Davies -- Classical Greece : Distribution / Astrid Moller -- Classical Greece : Consumption / Sitta Von Reden -- The Hellenistic Near East / Robartus J. Van Der Spek -- Hellenistic Egypt / Joseph G. Manning -- Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor / Gary Reger -- Early Rome and Italy / Jean-Paul Morel -- The late Republic / William V. Harris -- The early Roman empire : Production / Dennis P. Kehoe -- The early Roman empire : Distribution / Neville Morley -- The early Roman empire : Consumption / Willem M. Jongman -- The early Roman empire : The state and the economy / Elio Lo Cascio -- The western provinces / Philippe Leveau -- The eastern Mediterranean / Susan E. Alcock -- Roman Egypt / Dominic W. Rathbone -- The frontier zones / David Cherry -- The transition to late antiquity / Andrea Giardina |
| Summary |
Surveys the economies of classical antiquity with both thematic coverage, such as 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. Improves our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilization of the classical Mediterranean world possible |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-917) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history
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Economische geschiedenis.
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Oudheid.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057059
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Rome -- Economic conditions -- 510-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115103
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| Subject |
Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheidel, Walter, 1966-
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Morris, Ian, 1960-
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Saller, Richard P
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| ISBN |
9780511467073 |
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0511467079 |
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9781139054140 |
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1139054147 |
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9781139054140 |
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9781107673076 |
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1107673070 |
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