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The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective /
Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2019.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
425. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures, Tables and Graphs; Figures; Tables; Graph; Introduction; Chapter 1. Primitive Positions-the Oikos Debate; 1. The Defining Quartet-Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley; 2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley; Chapter 2. New Perspectives; 1. Institutions-the Engines of History; 2. Materialist Man and His Motivations; 3. The Only Constant is Change; 4. Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation; 5. The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences; Chapter 3. Warfare States; 1. Path Dependence
- 2. The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis3. The Spartan Naval Mirage; Chapter 4. War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes; 1. The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy; 2. Emerging Patterns of War; 3. Strategy; 4. Early Athenian Expansionism; 5. The Transition to Triremes; 6. Private to Polis Navies; Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Transition-the Naval Evidence; 1. Athens' 'Turn to the Sea'; 2. Casus Belli; 3. The Athenian Naval Revolution; 4. Themistocles' Naval Expansion; Chapter 6. Money, Markets and Naval Procurement
- 1. Coinage, Silver and Money Supply2. Trireme Costs and Lifespan; 3. Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement; 4. Provisioning the Fleet-a Network of Markets; Chapter 7. Naval Institutions-Trierarchy; 1. The Rules of the Game; 2. Liturgy-Delivering Public Goods; 3. Trierarchy-Delivering the Fleet; 4. Trierarchy in Theory and Practice; 5. Trierarchy-Institutional Evolution; 6. Cleruchy-Further Institutional Adaptation; Chapter 8. Naval Innovation; 1. The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy; 2. Naval Technological Innovation-the Ram; 3. Greek Innovation in Nautical Design
- Chapter 9. Naval Defence Infrastructure1. Shipsheds; 2. The Athenian Circuit Walls; 3. The Piraeus; 4. The Long Walls; 5. Estimating the Costs; Chapter 10. Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens; 1. Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence; 2. Schools of Democracy; 3. Athenian Trireme Crews; 4. Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves; 5. The Trireme School of Democracy; Chapter 11. The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy; 1. Economic Growth; 2. Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets; 3. The Athenian Labour Market; 4. The Naval Economy; 5. Size Matters; Chapter 12. The Wealth of Naval Athens
- 1. The Versatile Trireme2. Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments; 3. The Business of Empire; 4. Costs of War; 5. Ancient Athenian Keynesians; Conclusions; Appendix: Sources; Bibliography; Index