Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history : methodology and practice /

This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baker, Heather D., Jursa, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia ; Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Temas:
To 640
Economic history > To 500.
Histoire économique > Jusqu'à 500.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Economic history
Babylonia > Economic conditions.
Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > Economic conditions > 510-30 B.C.
Egypt > Economic conditions > 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 30 av. J.-C.-476.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 510-30 av. J.-C.
Égypte > Conditions économiques > 332 av. J.-C.-640.
Egypt
Middle East > Babylonia
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / M. Jursa
  • 2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions / H.D. Baker
  • 3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives / D. Charpin
  • 4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants / J.G. Dercksen
  • 5. Economic Development in Babylonia from the Late 7th to the Late 4th Century BC: Economic Growth and Economic Crises in Imperial Contexts / M. Jursa
  • 6. Legal Institutions and Agrarian Change in the Roman Empire / D. Kehoe
  • 7. The Papyrological Evidence for Water-Lifting Technology / M. Malouta
  • 8. Plagues and Prices: Locusts / R. Pirngruber
  • 9. On Payment Transactions and Monetisation in the Rural Areas of Late Antique Egypt: the Case Study of Small-Format Documents / S. Tost
  • 10. Social Network Analysis of Cuneiform Archives: a New Approach / C. Waerzeggers
  • 11. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC / R.J. van der Spek
  • 12. Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt / S. von Reden
  • 13. Mediterranean Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: the Impact of Rome / D. Rathbone
  • 14. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: Some Preliminary Conclusions / D. Rathbone
  • Index.

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