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  • Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy

    by Bart Danon ...
    Dismantling the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman empire, this study presents a new reconstruction of the distribution of elite wealth in Roman Italy based on an innovative combination of economic modelling and archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Bart Danon follows a quantitative approach to show that the Roman economic elite was in fact much larger ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Uncertain Past

    Probability in Ancient History

    Edited by Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, Bart Danon ...
    Historians constantly wrestle with uncertainty, never more so than when attempting quantification, yet the field has given little attention to the nature of uncertainty and strategies for managing it. This volume proposes a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. It shows how probability-based techniques used to ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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  • Before the Industrial Revolution

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  • States of Credit

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

    Edited by Paul Erdkamp ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

    Edited by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is designed as an up-to-date survey that is accessible to all audiences. Five main sections discuss theoretical approaches drawn from economics, ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Economy

    by Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden ...
    The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production ... Read more

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  • Money in Classical Antiquity

    by Sitta von Reden ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all ... Read more

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  • The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

    by Max Weber ...
    Series series Verso World History Series
    Max Weber, widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology, is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe and the analysis of modernity. But he also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East, and turned the youthful discipline of sociology to the study of these archaic cultures.The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

    Edited by Beryl Rawson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic historyIncludes contributions from ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

    Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

    by Alain Bresson ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent ... Read more

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