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Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age
Cover; Preface; List of Contributors ; Abstract; 1. Introduction: Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age; 2. Beyond the Peer: Social Interaction and Political Evolution in the Bronze Age Aegean; 3. Spirit of Place: Minoan Houses as Major Actors; 4. Making Elites: Political Economy and Elite Cu...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Havertown
: Oxbow Books
, 2010
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| Edition: | Online-Ausg. |
| Series: | EBL-Schweitzer
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| Online Access: | Volltext https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1165960 |
| Related Items: | Druckausg.:
Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age |
| Summary: | Cover; Preface; List of Contributors ; Abstract; 1. Introduction: Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age; 2. Beyond the Peer: Social Interaction and Political Evolution in the Bronze Age Aegean; 3. Spirit of Place: Minoan Houses as Major Actors; 4. Making Elites: Political Economy and Elite Culture(s) in Middle Minoan Crete; 5. From the Kinship Economy to the Palatial Economy: The Argolid in the SecondMillennium BC; 6. Political Economies in Ritual: A Comparative Study of the Rise of the Statein Pre- and Protopalatial Knossos and Phaistos 7. Reevaluating Staple and Wealth Finance at Mycenaean Pylos8. Seafaring in the Bronze Age Aegean: Evidence and Speculation; 9. Between and Beyond: Political Economy in Non-palatial Mycenaean Worlds; 10. Citadel and Sett lement: A Developing Economy at Mycenae, the Caseof Petsas House; 11. Living from Pots? Ceramic Perspectives on the Economies of Prepalatial Crete; 12. Wedging Clay: Combining Competing Models of Mycenaean Pott ery Industries; 13. Political Economies in the Aegean Bronze Age: A Response 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 th |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (273 p.)) |
| ISBN: | 9781842177945 |
