Pliny's Roman Economy
The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder's economic thought-and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire's constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny's Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 "e;things worth knowing,"e; was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and farmers, but this 37-book, 400,000-word work was too expensive, unwieldy, and impractically organized to be of utilitarian value. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Princeton University Press
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 216
- ISBN
- 9780691229553
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Serie
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The Princeton Economic History of the Western World