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Rome's economic revolution
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ISBN: 9780199681549 0199681546 9780191507359 0191507350 0198788541 0191765015 9780198788546 Year: 2014 Volume: *3 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Philip Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the 1st century BC. He focuses on how the increased flow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy.

The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world
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ISBN: 9780521780537 0521780535 9781139054140 9781107673076 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge. : Cambridge University Press,

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"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 explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible."--Publisher's website.


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Arma et nummi : Forschungen zur römischen Finanzgeschichte und Münzprägung der Jahre 49 bis 42 v. Chr.
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ISBN: 3700131593 9783700131595 Year: 2003 Volume: 312 40 14 Publisher: Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,


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Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history : methodology and practice
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ISBN: 1782977589 1782977597 1782977619 9781782977612 9781782977599 9781782977605 1782977600 9781782977582 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia ; Oxford : Oxbow Books,

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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 divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market developme


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Money and power in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9789042933026 904293302X Year: 2016 Volume: 355 Publisher: Bruxelles : Editions Latomus,

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"Rome's transformation from a regional force in Latium into a Mediterranean superpower (4th to 1st centuries BCE) was accompanied by an accelerated change of economic realities. The persistent influx of vast natural and monetary resources from abroad deeply altered the basis of Rome's military. As income skyrocketed, the exercise of political influence at Rome became increasingly intertwined with issues of personal finance. Despite claims for frugality, the political power of senatorial families was always determined through the accumulation of wealth. By the 1st century BCE, the competition of these families for rank and recognition was dramatically wrapped up with access to monetary capital and economic resources. When the republic finally fell, this was also due to a financial crash that hit the very centre of Roman society. Examining monetary and financial assets, this volume discloses how economic power and 'real' capital augmented the nature of aristocratic power at Rome. Papers are grouped in three topical clusters: Currencies of Power, Money and State Action, Wealth and Status."--


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Infrastructure and distribution in ancient economies : proceedings of a conference held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014
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ISBN: 9783700181088 9783700184713 3700184719 3700181086 Year: 2018 Volume: 506 Publisher: Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,

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This volume presents the proceedings of the international interdisciplinary founding conference of the division "Documenta Antiqua" at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), held in 2014. The research focus of the new division are the source disciplines of ancient history: mainly epigraphy, numismatics and papyrology. The book contains an introductory essay as well as 17 contributions on various aspects of ancient infrastructure and on the flow of money, goods and services in ancient economies: in the classical and Hellenistic Greek world, the Roman Empire and in ancient Iran, from Neo-Assyrian times to the Parthian and Sasanian periods. In a general perspective, there is a special emphasis on numismatic contributions. So far, numismatics hardly played a part in modern research on the ancient infrastructure, although money and financial services are universally acknowledged to be indispensable elements of the infrastructure of modern societies. Hence, in this volume numismatics is fully integrated into research on the circulation of goods and the infrastructure of the ancient world for the very first time. Among the topics covered in these innovative contributions the following may be singled out: the economic implications of the extensive countermarking of Hellenistic silver coinages in Asia Minor; the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete bronze coins; patterns of coin production and coin distribution in the Roman Empire in the principate; structures of minting in ancient Iran in the Arsacid and Sasanian periods.

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History, Ancient. --- Economics --- Economic history --- Commerce --- Trade --- Business --- Transportation --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- History --- Greece --- Rome --- Iran --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- E-books --- Conferences - Meetings --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Congresses --- Greece - Commerce - History - Congresses --- Rome - Commerce - History - Congresses --- Greece - Economic conditions - To 146 B.C. - Congresses --- Rome - Economic conditions - 510-30 B.C. - Congresses --- To 30 B.C. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- Iran. --- Ir --- Islamskai͡a Respublika Iran --- República Islâmica do Ir --- Roman Republic --- Italy --- Gret͡sii͡

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