The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/22/2012
EAN 9781107673076, ISBN10: 1107673070

Paperback, 960 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 5.4 cm
Language: English

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 explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.

1. Introduction Ian Morris, Richard Saller and Walter Scheidel
Part I. Determinants of Economic Performance
2. Ecology Robert Sallares
3. Demography Walter Scheidel
4. Household and gender Richard Saller
5. Law and economic institutions Bruce W. Frier and Dennis P. Kehoe
6. Technology Helmuth Schneider
Part II. Early Mediterranean Economies and the Near East
7. The Aegean Bronze Age John Bennet
8. Early Iron Age Greece Ian Morris
9. The Early Iron Age in the western Mediterranean Michael Dietler
10. Archaic Greece Robin Osborne
11. The Persian Near East Peter R. Bedford
Part III. Classical Greece
12. Classical Greece
production John K. Davies
13. Classical Greece
distribution Astrid Möller
14. Classical Greece
consumption Sitta von Reden
Part IV. The Hellenistic States
15. The Hellenistic Near East Robartus J. van der Spek
16. Hellenistic Egypt Joseph G. Manning
17. Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor Gary Reger
Part V. Early Italy and the Roman Republic
18. Early Rome and Italy Jean-Paul Morel
19. The Late Republic William V. Harris
Part VI. The Early Roman Empire
20. The early Roman empire
production Dennis P. Kehoe
21. The early Roman empire
distribution Neville Morley
22. The early Roman empire
consumption Willem M. Jongman
23. The early Roman empire
the state and the economy Elio Lo Cascio
Part VII. Regional Development in the Roman Empire
24. The western provinces Philippe Leveau
25. The eastern Mediterranean Susan E. Alcock
26. Roman Egypt Dominic W. Rathbone
27. The frontier zones David Cherry
Part VIII. Epilogue
28. The transition to late antiquity Andrea Giardina.

Review of the hardback: 'By presenting current scholarship and its prospective future course, the editors have produced a very important work. Prodigious bibliography ... Summing up: highly recommended.' Choice