The Organization of Ancient Economies
A Global Perspective
- Author: Kenneth Hirth, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: September 2020
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108494700
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In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as individuals but in the social groups where they lived and worked out the details of their livelihoods. He explores the variation in economic organization used by simple and complex societies to procure, produce, and distribute resources required by both individual households and the social and political institutions that they supported. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic information, he develops and applies an analytical framework for studying ancient societies that range from the hunting and gathering groups of native North America, to the large state societies of both the New and Old Worlds. Hirth demonstrates that despite differences in transportation and communication technologies, the economic organization of ancient and modern societies are not as different as we sometimes think.
Read more- Provides a comparative analysis of the domestic and political economies in ancient and premodern societies
- Examines and compares the economic structures of forager, pastoral and agricultural societies ranging from simple bands and tribes to complex states
- Provides a framework with which to examine and compare the structures of ancient and premodern economies
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- Date Published: September 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108494700
- length: 462 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 185 x 26 mm
- weight: 1.15kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. The structure of ancient economy
2. The domestic economy
3. The community of households: informal
4. From households to palaces: leaders, chiefs, and their households
5. Financing formal institutions: systems of direct production
6. Taxation, rent, and patronage: mobilization of institutional resources
7. The role of merchants and trade in ancient society
8. The nature and origin of independent craft production
9. On markets and marketplaces
10. On first principles of the ancient economy: a concluding discussion.
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