The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Author: Scheidel, Walter; Morris, Ian; Sailer, Richard
Title: The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
Publication: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 942pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Light shelfwear to dust jacket, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Bound in textured black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and of spine and faint dust spotting to boards. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first edition of this first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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. (Publisher). Very Good / Very Good.

Seller ID: 17570

Subject: Economics & The History of Commerce, History & Geography