Agrarian change in late antiquity : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance /
In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold. - ;The economy of the late antique...
| Основен автор: | Banaji, Jairus, 1947- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Серия: |
Oxford classical monographs.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=264902 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Agrarian change in late antiquity. |
| Резюме: |
In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold. - ;The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable gold coinage that circulated widely. In successive ch. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Previous edition: 2001. |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191529573 0191529575 |