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The Dynamics of Ancient Empires is designed to address the deficit in the comparative study of an...

The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. B...

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient h...

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyA...

A major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the ...

The first ever global survey of tax systems and their social and political contexts in premodern ...

A sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of the Roman Empire's economic life.

Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This ...

The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and p...

This volume brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China a...

This is a collection of essays in the social and economic history of Greece and Rome by a leading...