The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

J. G. Manning

ISBN 10: 0691202303 / ISBN 13: 9780691202303

Edité par Princeton University Press, 2020

2020. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9780691202303

Synopsis :

A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world

In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that the search for an illusory single ancient economy has obscured the diversity of the Mediterranean world, including changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, this groundbreaking book shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period-and why the origins of the modern economy extend far beyond Greece and Rome.

À propos de l?auteur: J. G. Manning is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of History and professor of classics at Yale University. He is the author of The Last Pharaohs: Egypt under the Ptolemies (Princeton) and Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt, and the coeditor of The Ancient Economy.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the ...
Éditeur : Princeton University Press
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New