Money, Labour and Land

Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
Herausgeber: Cartledge, Paul; Foxhall, Lin; Cohen, Edward E

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Produktbeschreibung

The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage as these different starting points produce clashing views on the significance and distribution of money, labour and land. Money, Labour and Land reflects the current explosion in ideas and research by assembling case-studies from an international selection of renowned US, British and European scholars. Drawing on comparative historical and anthropological approaches, sociological, economic and cultural theory, and developments in epigraphy, legal history, numismatics and spatial archaeology, this volume will be of interest to all students and scholars of ancient economies.

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Money, Labour and Land explores a wide range of case studies in the economic history of the ancient Greek world to reveal an explosion of ideas which open new pathways into the study of the economies of ancient Greece.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415510554
• ISBN-10: 0415510554
• Artikelnr.: 35057646

Autorenporträt

Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, Lin Foxhall

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface by Geoffrey Lloyd
1 Introduction
2 Hard surfaces
3 Small change and the moneyed economy
4 Demos' phialê and the rhetoric of money in fourth-century Athens
5 Workshop
marketplace and household: the nature of technical specialization in classical Athens and its influence on economy and society
6 An unprofitable masculinity
7 Markets
fairs and monetary loans: cultural history and economic history in Roman Italy and Hellenistic Greece
8 Merchants
prostitutes and the 'new poor': forms of contract and social status
9 Domination and exploitation
10 The political economy of Greek slavery
11 On Paul Cartledge
'The political economy of Greek slavery'
12 The hireling and the slave: a transatlantic perspective
13 A simple case of exploitation? The helots of Messenia
14 The strategies of Mr Theopompos
15 Access to resources in classical Greece: the egalitarianism of the polis in practice
Bibliography
Index of ancient authors
General index