{"product_id":"the-open-sea-j-g-manning-9780691151748","title":"The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Open Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single \"ancient economy\" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Open Sea\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the keys to understanding the region's rapid social and economic change during the Iron Age are the variety of economic and political solutions its different cultures devised, the patterns of cross-cultural exchange, and the sharp environmental contrasts between Egypt, the Near East, and Greece and Rome. The book examines long-run drivers of change, such as climate, together with the most important economic institutions of the premodern Mediterranean--coinage, money, agriculture, and private property. It also explores the role of economic growth, states, and legal institutions in the region's various economies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA groundbreaking economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Sea\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the origins of the modern economy extend far beyond Greece and Rome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. G. Manning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691151741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691151748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018","brand":"J. G. Manning","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925617049855,"sku":"9780691151748","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_097b23f4-99e1-4af7-89ad-1085822074b1.jpg?v=1681078332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-open-sea-j-g-manning-9780691151748","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}