Timothy Earle

Bronze Age Economics

The First Political Economies

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Produktbeschreibung

Timothy Earle represents both a personal journey and a growing synthesis of how political economies emerged in human society. He documents how intensification of economies and controlled distribution of both staple and prestige goods drove the political evolutionary processes that prefigured states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780813338774
• ISBN-10: 0813338778
• Artikelnr.: 21672139

Autorenporträt

Earle, Timothy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Political Economies of Chiefdoms and Agrarian States
The Ecology and Politics of Primitive Valuables
Chiefdoms in Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives
Hawaiian Chiefdoms
A Reappraisal of Redistribution
Prehistoric Irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands
Specialization and the Production of Wealth
Style and Iconography as Legitimation in Complex Chiefdoms
Andean Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy
Wealth Finance in the Inka Empire
Exchange and Social Stratification in the Andes
Status Distinction and Legitimation of Power as Reflected in Changing Patterns of Consumption in Late Prehispanic Peru
Chiefdoms of Denmark
The Bronze Age Economy of Thy
Property Rights and the Evolution of Chiefdoms
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies