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The invention of coinage and the monetization of ancient Greece / David M. Schaps.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaps, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coins, Greek.
- Coinage--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Coinage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage.
- Contents:
- List of Figures; Abbreviations; 1. The Revolutionary Invention; 2. Questions and Controversies; 3. Money before Coinage: The Ancient Near East; 4. Greece before Money: The Bronze Age; 5. Homer: Tripods and Oxen; 6. The Archaic Age: Cauldrons, Spits, and Silver; 7. The First Coins; 8. Money and the Market; 9. The Monetization of Politics; 10. War by Other Means; 11. The Monetization of Labor; 12. Money on the Farm; 13. Using Money to Make Money; 14. Monetization: Limits and Illusions; Appendixes; 1. The Economist and the Historian; 2. Pre-Greek Coinage; 3. Prices in Solon's Day. 4. Unproductive Loans and Unproductive PeopleBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612695728
- 9781282695726
- 128269572X
- 9780472025336
- 0472025333
- OCLC:
- 613205620
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