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Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East.
The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through?entrepreneurs?, the development of new trade circuits and an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; 1. Economies in transition: trade, "money", labour and nomads at the turn of the 1st millennium BC; 2. Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the Persian Period; 3. Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state; 4. Beyond capitalism
- conceptualising ancient trade through friction, world historical context and bazaars; 5. Phoenician trade: the first 300 years.
- 6. The contribution of pottery production in reconstructing aspects of local rural economy at the northern frontier of the Neo-Assyrian Empire7. Silver circulation and the development of the private economy in the Assyrian Empire (9th-7th centuries BCE): considerations on private investments, prices and prosperity levels of the imperial élite; 8. Long-distance trade in Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia: the effects of institutional changes; 9. The empire of trade and the empires of force: Tyre in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods.
- 10. Temples and agricultural labour in Egypt, from the Late New Kingdom to the Saite Period11. North-east Africa and trade at the crossroads of the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea; 12. Temples, trade and money in Egypt in the 1st millennium BC; 13. From "institutional" to "private": traders, routes and commerce from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age; 14. Intercultural contacts between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula at the turn of the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE.
- 15. Interactions between temple, king and local elites: the hanšû land schemes in Babylonia (8th-6th centuries BC)16. Organisation and financing of trade and caravans in the Near East; 17. Aegean economies from Bronze Age to Iron Age: some lines of development, 13th-7th centuries BC.