Some of the topics covered include a social and economical analysis of ancient, pre-State Greece, Athens in particular; of the classical Maya; the Maori women and slaves; of rural India; rural Kentucky; and of pre-industrial Japan.

Table of Contents:
David Tandy (see bio. below), and Walter C. Neale (former student of Polanyi's; professor emeritus at Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville): Karl Polanyi's Distinctive Approach to Social Analysis and the Case of Ancient Greece.
Walter Donlan (Univ. of California at Irvine): Chief and Followers in Pre-State Greece.
Ian Morris (Univ. of Chicago; archeologist): The Community Against the Market in Classical Athens. John Adams (Northeastern Univ.): The Institutional Theory of Trade and the Orgainzation of Intersocial Commerce in Ancient Athens.
Vernon L. Scarborough (Univ. of Cincinnati): Water Management as a Function of Locational and Appropriational Movements and the Case of the Classic Maya of Tikal.
Makoto Maruyama (Univ. of Tokyo): Hansatsu: Local Currencies in Pre-Industrial Japan.
William C. Schaniel (West Georgia College in Carrollton): How the Changing Economic Roles of Women and Slaves Remained Embedded in Maori Society, 1769-1839.
Walter C. Neale: The Double Movement in the Economic History of Rural India.
Rhoda Halperin (Univ. of Cincinnati): Time and the Economy in a Northeastern Kentucky Region.

About the editors
Colin M. Duncan is adjunct assistant professor of history at Queen's University in Kingston, where he specializes in the environmental history of British agriculture.
David W. Tandy is associate professor of classics at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; his speciality is early Greece.