Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 958 pages
- Published by: Cambridge University Press January 21, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0521780535
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521780537
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 2.4 inches
- Weighs: 3.1 pounds
Product 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.
Book Description
This important work reflects a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.
Reader ReviewsI am a retired professor of Classics. My speciality was ancient Greek and Latin poetry, not history. So, I can review this book with more knowledge than most, but not as much knowledge as some. Its contributors are among the world's leading ancient historians; and their contributions provide both a broad survey and an intensive analysis of a subject that is more interesting and important than many people realize.
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