| Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East Contributor(s): Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785702831 ISBN-13: 9781785702839 Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - History | Middle East - General - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 330.939 |
| LCCN: 2016030480 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" (2.35 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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| Publisher Description: The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through "entrepreneurs", the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial superpowers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos: - Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno García (PhD in Egyptology, 1995) is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, as well as lecturer on social and economic history of ancient Egypt at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published extensively on the administration, socio-economic history, and landscape organization of ancient Egypt, usually in a comparative perspective with other civilizations of the ancient world, and has organized several conferences on these topics. Recent publications include Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East, 1300-500 BC (2016), L'Égypte des pharaons. De Narmer à Dioclétien (3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr. J.-C.) (2016) and Ancient Egyptian Administration (2013). He is also chief editor of The Journal of Egyptian History (Brill) and area editor ("economy") of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. |