The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models.(Book review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J.G. Manning and Ian Morris. Social Science History series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xiii, 285 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).

The volume under review is an important and timely contribution to a growing field in the study of Mediterranean antiquity. The editors of this book identify it as an early step toward achieving two goals. First, undoing the model, inherited from the development of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century university, for studying the ancient Mediterranean as a divided world in which ...

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