Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history methodology and practice

1. Introduction / M. Jursa -- 2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions / H. D. Baker -- 3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives / D. Charpin -- 4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants / J. G. Dercksen -- 5. Economic D...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baker, Heather D. (BerichterstatterIn), Jursa, Michael (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxbow Books 2014
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Zusammenfassung:1. Introduction / M. Jursa -- 2. House Size and Household Structure: Quantitative Data in the Study of Babylonian Urban Living Conditions / H. D. Baker -- 3. The Historian and the Old Babylonian Archives / D. Charpin -- 4. The Old Assyrian Trade and its Participants / J. G. Dercksen -- 5. Economic Development in Babylonia from the Late 7th to the Late 4th Century BC: Economic Growth and Economic Crises in Imperial Contexts / M. Jursa -- 6. Legal Institutions and Agrarian Change in the Roman Empire / D. Kehoe -- 7. The Papyrological Evidence for Water-Lifting Technology / M. Malouta -- 8. Plagues and Prices: Locusts / R. Pirngruber -- 9. On Payment Transactions and Monetisation in the Rural Areas of Late Antique Egypt: the Case Study of Small-Format Documents / S. Tost -- 10. Social Network Analysis of Cuneiform Archives: a New Approach / C. Waerzeggers -- 11. The Volatility of Prices of Barley and Dates in Babylon in the Third and Second Centuries BC / R. J. van der Spek -- 12. Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt / S. von Reden -- 13. Mediterranean Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: the Impact of Rome / D. Rathbone -- 14. Mediterranean and Near Eastern Grain Prices c. 300 to 31 BC: Some Preliminary Conclusions / D. Rathbone -- Index
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IV, 338 S
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ISBN:9781782977582
978-1-78297-758-2
9781782976516
978-1-78297-651-6