The Open Sea : : The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome / / J. G. Manning.
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 50 b/w illus., 6 tables, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- PART I. HISTORY & THEORY
- INTRODUCTION. History, Theory, and Institutions Approaching the Ancient Economy
- CHAPTER 1. New Directions and Broader Contexts in the Study of Premodern Economies
- CHAPTER 2. Ancient Economies: Taking Stock from Phoenician Traders to the Rise of the Roman Empire
- CHAPTER 3. Bronze, Iron, and Silver: Time, Space, and Geography and Ancient Mediterranean Economies
- PART II. ENVIRONMENT & INSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER 4. Agriculture and Labor
- CHAPTER 5. The Boundaries of Premodern Economies: Ecology, Climate, and Climate Change
- CHAPTER 6. The Birth of "Economic Man": Demography, the State, the Household, and the Individual
- CHAPTER 7. The Evolution of Economic Thought in the Ancient World: Money, Law, and Legal Institutions
- CHAPTER 8. Growth, Innovation, Markets, and Trade
- CHAPTER 9. Conclusions
- Appendix: Climate Data
- Notes
- Key Readings
- Bibliography
- Index