Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age
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Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age

About this book

This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of centralization and multiple scales of production, distribution, and consumption within a polity; importance of extraregional trade; craft specialization; the role of non-elite institutions, and the political economy before the emergence of the palaces. The contributors address these issues from an explicitly comparative perspective, both within and across Minoan and Mycenaean contexts. The conclusions reached in this volume shed new light on the essential differences between and among "Minoan" and "Mycenaean" states through their political economies.

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Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781842177945
Topic
History
Subtopic
Greek Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Abstract
  5. 1. Introduction: Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age
  6. 2. Beyond the Peer: Social Interaction and Political Evolution in the Bronze Age Aegean
  7. 3. Spirit of Place: Minoan Houses as Major Actors
  8. 4. Making Elites: Political Economy and Elite Culture(s) in Middle Minoan Crete
  9. 5. From the Kinship Economy to the Palatial Economy: The Argolid in the SecondMillennium BC
  10. 6. Political Economies in Ritual: A Comparative Study of the Rise of the Statein Pre- and Protopalatial Knossos and Phaistos
  11. 7. Reevaluating Staple and Wealth Finance at Mycenaean Pylos
  12. 8. Seafaring in the Bronze Age Aegean: Evidence and Speculation
  13. 9. Between and Beyond: Political Economy in Non-palatial Mycenaean Worlds
  14. 10. Citadel and Sett lement: A Developing Economy at Mycenae, the Caseof Petsas House
  15. 11. Living from Pots? Ceramic Perspectives on the Economies of Prepalatial Crete
  16. 12. Wedging Clay: Combining Competing Models of Mycenaean Pott ery Industries
  17. 13. Political Economies in the Aegean Bronze Age: A Response