Ebook: Hellenistic Economies

BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. HELLENISTIC ECONOMIES IN THE POST-FINLEY ERA -- 2. POPULATION-PRODUCTION-TAXATION-COINAGE: A MODEL FOR THE SELEUKID ECONOMY -- 3. THE ECONOMY OF HELLENISTIC MARESHA: INFLUENCES BASED ON THE CITY PLAN AND ARCHAELOGICAL FINDS -- 4. REGIONS AND MICRO-REGIONS: GRAIN FOR RHAMNOUS -- 5. ECONOMICS IN ANCIENT ARABIA: FROM ALEXANDER TO THE AUGUSTANS -- 6. BETWEEN COLONIES AND EMPORIA: IBERIAN HINTERLANDS AND THE EXCHANGE OFSALTED FISH IN EASTERN SPAIN -- 7. GRAIN, TIMBER AND MONEY: HELLENISTIC KINGS, FINANCE, BUILDINGS AND FOUNDATIONS IN GREEK CITIES -- 8. THE RHODIAN ASSOCIATIONS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- 9. MAKING THE MOST OF ONE'S FRIENDS: WESTERN ASIA MINOR IN THE EARLY HELLENISTIC AGE -- 10. SHIPWRECKS AND HELLENISTIC TRADE -- 11. THE ANTIGONIDS: PATTERNS OF A ROYAL ECONOMY -- 12. HELLENISTIC ECONOMIES: THE CASE OF ROME -- 13. AWAY FROM ROSTOVTZEFF: A NEW SEHHW -- INDEX OF SOURCES -- GENERAL INDEX.;The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by juxtaposing general questions of theory and model-building with case-studies which examine specific areas and kinds of evidence. It breaks new ground by distilling and presenting new and newly-reinterpreted evidence for the Hellenistic era, by opening the debate on how we should replace Rostovtzeff's classic view of this period, and by offering a compelling new set of interpretative ideas to the debate on the ancient economy.