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The Open Sea - The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome (Hardcover)
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The Open Sea - The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome (Hardcover)
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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 in the Iron Age, from Phoenician
trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's
imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and
the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an
illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of
lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes
in political economies over time and differences in cultural
conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how
the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during
this period. The Open Sea argues that the keys to understanding the
region's rapid social and economic change during the Iron Age are
the variety of economic and political solutions its different
cultures devised, the patterns of cross-cultural exchange, and the
sharp environmental contrasts between Egypt, the Near East, and
Greece and Rome. The book examines long-run drivers of change, such
as climate, together with the most important economic institutions
of the premodern Mediterranean--coinage, money, agriculture, and
private property. It also explores the role of economic growth,
states, and legal institutions in the region's various economies. A
groundbreaking economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world,
The Open Sea shows that the origins of the modern economy extend
far beyond Greece and Rome.
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