Description
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world
In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that the search for an illusory single ancient economy has obscured the diversity of the Mediterranean world, including changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, this groundbreaking book shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period-and why the origins of the modern economy extend far beyond Greece and Rome.Author: J. G. Manning
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780691202303
ISBN10: 0691202303
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | General
- Business & Economics | Economic History
About the Author
J. G. Manning is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of History and professor of classics at Yale University. He is the author of The Last Pharaohs: Egypt under the Ptolemies (Princeton) and Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt, and the coeditor of The Ancient Economy.