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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Series The Cambridge Economic History of the
Greco-Roman World, Volume 1

Edited by Walter
Scheidel, Ian
Morris and Richard
Saller

Publication Date 2007

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521780537

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521780537

Overview

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
developed, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously
been treated separately. This important work represents a major advance in our
understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the
classical Mediterranean world possible.

For more details of the print book, and
how to buy it online, please see The Cambridge Economic History of the
Greco-Roman World in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World Vol. 1: The Cambridge
Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Frontmatter

Introduction
by Ian
Morris, Richard
Saller and Walter
Scheidel

Determinants
of Economic Performance

Early
Mediterranean Economies and the Near East

Classical
Greece

The
Hellenistic States

Early
Italy and the Roman Republic

The
Early Roman Empire

Regional
Development in the Roman Empire

Epilogue

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