Markets and exchanges in pre-modern and traditional societies /
"Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviv...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Havertown, PA :
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2021.
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| Series: | Multidisciplinary approaches to ancient societies (MAtAS). Interpreting ancient Egypt ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Markets and transactions in pre-modern societies: Juan Carlos Moreno García
- Chapter 2. A key commodity: The role of cowries inWest Africa: Anne Haour
- Chapter 3. Marketplaces and market exchanges in thepre-colonial Americas: Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
- Chapter 4. The enchanting scale: Magic and morality in theBronze Age economic balance: Chris Monroe
- Chapter 5. Markets, efflorescence, and political economyin the Ancient Mediterranean and theAncient Near East: Reinhard Pirngruber
- Chapter 6. Peasants, rural economy, and cash crops inmedieval Islam: Bethany J. Walker
- Chapter 7. Markets in the shadows, trade diasporas, and selforganizingtrading/smuggling networks:J.B. Owens
- Chapter 8. Market performance in the grain market of latemedieval Western Europe (c. 1300-1650): Bas van Leeuwen and Robin C.M. Philips
- Chapter 9. Two tales of pre-modern contraction:Wage differentials in late medieval and earlymodern Japan: Osamu Saito
- Chapter 10. Markets, transactions, and ancient Egypt: Newvenues for research in a comparative perspective: Juan Carlos Moreno García.
