John Weisweiler

Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Credit, Money, and Social Obligation

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Produktbeschreibung

In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. In Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, John Weisweiler explores the implications of this theory for historians of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. On the one hand, it assesses how well the interpretations advanced in Debt fit current understandings of ancient economies. On the other hand, it sketches a history of ancient credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both quantifiable economic reality and immeasurable social obligation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780197647172
• ISBN-10: 0197647170
• Artikelnr.: 66130201

Autorenporträt

John Weisweiler is University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is co-editor of Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East and author of From Republican Empire to Universal State: Senators, Emperors, Senators and Local Elites in Early Imperial and Late-Antique Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1 The Currency-Slavery-Warfare Complex: David Graeber and the History
of Value in Antiquity
* John Weisweiler
* 2 Beyond Debt: Markets and Morality in First-Millennium-BCE Babylonia
* Reinhard Pirngruber
* 3 Cosmic Debt in Greece and India
* Richard Seaford
* 4 Private Debts in Classical Greece: Bond of Friendship, Curse of
hatred?
* Moritz Hinsch
* 5 Debt, Death, and Destruction in Ancient Rome
* Lisa Eberle
* 6 The Poetics and Politics of Exchange in Roman Agronomy
* Neville Morley
* 7 Monetization, Marketization and State Formation: The Later Roman
Empire as an Axial Age Economy
* John Weisweiler
* 8 Zoroastrian Materialism: Religion, Empire, and Their Critics in
Graeber's Late Axial Age
* Richard Payne
* 9 Debt, Debt Bondage, and the Early Islamic Economy
* Michael Bonner
* 10 Debt's Fourth Millennium Seen From Below: How Papyri Modify the
Picture
* Arietta Papaconstantinou
* 11 After the Axial Age: Debt and Obligation in the European Early
Middle Ages
* Alice Rio
* 12 Afterword
* Keith Hart