Buch, Englisch, Band 425, 381 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
A Naval Perspective
Buch, Englisch, Band 425, 381 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 978-90-04-38614-3
Verlag: Brill
Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O’Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks.
The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Figures, Tables and Graphs
Introduction
1 Primitive Positions—the Oikos Debate
1 The Defining Quartet—Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley
2 The Ancient Economy Post-Finley
2 New Perspectives
1 Institutions—the Engines of History
2 Materialist Man and His Motivations
3 The Only Constant is Change
4 Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation
5 The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences
3 Warfare States
1 Path Dependence
2 The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis
3 The Spartan Naval Mirage
4 War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes
1 The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy
2 Emerging Patterns of War
3 Strategy
4 Early Athenian Expansionism
5 The Transition to Triremes
6 Private to Polis Navies
5 The Late Archaic Transition—the Naval Evidence
1 Athens’ ‘Turn to the Sea’
2 Casus Belli
3 The Athenian Naval Revolution
4 Themistocles’ Naval Expansion
6 Money, Markets and Naval Procurement
1 Coinage, Silver and Money Supply
2 Trireme Costs and Lifespan
3 Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement
4 Provisioning the Fleet—a Network of Markets
7 Naval Institutions—Trierarchy
1 The Rules of the Game
2 Liturgy—Delivering Public Goods
3 Trierarchy—Delivering the Fleet
4 Trierarchy in Theory and Practice
5 Trierarchy—Institutional Evolution
6 Cleruchy—Further Institutional Adaptation
8 Naval Innovation
1 The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy
2 Naval Technological Innovation—the Ram
3 Greek Innovation in Nautical Design
9 Naval Defence Infrastructure
1 Shipsheds
2 The Athenian Circuit Walls
3 The Piraeus
4 The Long Walls
5 Estimating the Costs
10 Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens
1 Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence
2 Schools of Democracy
3 Athenian Trireme Crews
4 Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves
5 The Trireme School of Democracy
11 The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy
1 Economic Growth
2 Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets
3 The Athenian Labour Market
4 The Naval Economy
5 Size Matters
12 The Wealth of Naval Athens
1 The Versatile Trireme
2 Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments
3 The Business of Empire
4 Costs of War
5 Ancient Athenian Keynesians
Conclusions
Appendix: Sources and Numbers
Bibliography
Index
