The Measure of Civilization - How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

Pourquoi l'Occident domine le monde... pour l'instant - Les modèles du passé et ce qu'ils révèlent sur l'avenir

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarize 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-specialists, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilization of the classical Mediterranean world possible.

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present and future, this book explains why the West rules.

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