Author: Michael HeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
מיכאל
Author: Michael HeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern
Author: Walter Augustus HawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rugs, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Economic Structures of Antiquity
Author: Morris SilverPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313031339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights). The analysis of transaction costs provides insights into many characteristics of the ancient economy, such as the important role of the sacred and symbolic gestures in making contracts, magical technology, the entrepreneurial role of high-born women, the elevation of familial ties and other departures from impersonal economics, reliance on slavery and adoption, and the insatiable drive to accumulate trust-capital. The peculiar behavior patterns and mindsets of ancient economic man are shown to be facilitators of economic growth. In recent years, our view of the economy of the ancient world has been shaped by the theories of Karl Polanyi. Silver confronts Polanyi's empirical propositions with the available evidence and demonstrates that antiquity knew active and sophisticated markets. In the course of providing an alternative analytical framework for studying the ancient economy, Silver gives critical attention to the economic views of the Assyriologists I.M. Diakonoff, W.F. Leemans, Mario Liverani, and J.N. Postgate; of the Egyptologists Jacob J. Janssen and Wolfgang Helck; and of the numerous followers of Moses Finley. Silver convincingly demonstrates that the ancient world was not static: periods of pervasive economic regulation by the state are interspersed with lengthy periods of relatively unfettered market activity, and the economies of Sumer, Babylonia, and archaic Greece were capable of transforming themselves in order to take advantage of new opportunities. This new synthesis is essential reading for economic historians and researchers of the ancient Near East and Greece.
American Economist and Tariff League Bulletin
Author: Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World
Author: Agathe KellerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031496175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Victorian Contractors' and Builders' Price-Book, Containing a Universal and Permanent Price List for Labor Only, and the Melbourne Prices of Materials, for 1859. ... With an Abstract of the Melbourne Building Act
Author: Charles MAYES (Civil Engineer and Architect.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Ancient History
Author: Hutton WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry
Author: George Franklin FortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guilds
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East
Author: Juan Carlos Moreno GarciaPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178570284X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
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 expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial super-powers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial.
The Victorian Contractors' and Builders' Price-Book
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382305658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.