Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece

by: Tandy, D.W.

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The emergence of the early Greek world of the eighth century B.C. appears startling in contrast to the "darkness," of the several preceding centuries, centuries about which we know little. David Tandy investigates the roles of the economy and of poetry in that emergence, using tools from political and economic anthropology to argue that the so-called miracle of the polis was fundamentally exclusive and involved enormous human and cultural costs, that wrenching adjustments in the way status and wealth were distributed within the Greek communities led to this peculiarly Western political institution. The eighth-century release from economic stagnation brought great change to the Aegean world, as once again goods moved within and between communities. By analyzing demographic surges and the colonization movement, Tandy explores the economic organization of preindustrial societies, both ancient and contemporary, to shed light on the Greek experience. He argues that the sudden shift in Greek economic formations led to new social behaviors as the polis, itself a byproduct of economic change, began to coalesce

Preface
Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. More Greeks
App. A. Snodgrass's Burial Counts
App. B. Adjustments to Snodgrass's Counts
App. C. Dedication Patterns on Mt. Hymettus
App. D. Historical Patterns of Growth and the Greek Numbers
Ch. 3. Early Movements of Goods and of Greeks
Ch. 4. Structure and Change in Dark Age Greece from the Fall of Mycenae through the Homeric Epics
Ch. 5. A Great Transformation
Ch. 6. Tools of Exclusion
Ch. 7. Epic and Other Memories
Ch. 8. Response from the Periphery
Ch. 9. Conclusions. TABLES: Datable burials in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid
Annual increase in burials in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid
Datable burials in the Argolid
Annual increase in burials in the Argolid
Burials in Athens and Attica, by age
Deaths in Athens and Attica
Annual increase in deaths in Athens and Attica
Offerings to Zeus Ombrios on Mt. Hymettus
Offerings to Zeus Ombrios, by vessel type
Population growth in North America
Population growth in select regions of the world
Greek colonies in the west
Renfrew's growth model
Burials per annum in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid
Burials in Athens
The symmetry of reciprocity
External reciprocity between "nations"
The centricity of redistribution
The centricity and simplicity of householding
Introduction of markets
Simultaneous reciprocity, redistribution, and markets
Limited market system
Zagora on Andros
Emporio on Chios
Koukounaries on Paros
MAPS: Greece and the Aegean
The Greeks in the west
The eastern Mediterranean
Boeotia

Subjects:
Commerce
Economic history
Greece
Greece Commerce History
Greece Economic conditions To 146 B.C
Greece History Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C
Grèce Conditions économiques Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
Hesiod
Hesiod Political and social views
History
Homer
Homer Political and social views
Literature and society
Literature and society Greece
Littérature et société Grèce
Political and social views
To 146 B.C

Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece

by: Tandy, D.W.

• ISBN-13: 9780520226913
• ISBN-03: 0520226917
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997

Price: 35,00 EURO

1 copy in stock