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Ancient economies revealed: Temples, palaces, and the surprising origins of money.
Temples of Enterprise
Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East
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344 pages
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12 March 2024
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Summary
The twelve articles collected in this volume describe how the most basic features of Western economic organization - money, markets, land tenure and enterprise - were created in the temples and palaces of the ancient Near East. The perspective on these topics originated in the five international colloquia organized by the Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET) with Harvard University’s Peabody Museum from 1994 to 2015. When these meetings began, most Assyriology, Egyptol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783949546181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3949546189 |
| Author: | Michael Hudson |
| Publisher: | Islet |
| Imprint: | Islet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 549g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 170mm x 18mm |
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