A careful
application of Karl Polanyi's approach to
the economies and communities of ancient peoples.
Robert
Kuttner, in the New York Times
Book Review, February 28, 1999,
observed that even those on the right have taken up
criticism of undermanaged and unrestrained global
capitalism. He concluded: "The seminal work in
this tradition is Karl Polanyi's 1944 masterpiece, The
Great Transformation, which is
overdue for rediscovery."
Stretching
from the Mycenaean Greeks of the second millennium to
the Athenians of the fourth century B.C.E., this
volume features the work of prominent scholars in the
fields of classics, history, and archaeology.
The
essays stem from the International Karl Polanyi
Conference held in Montreal, and from the joint
meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America
and the American Philological Association. What they
have in common is a careful application of Karl
Polanyi's approach to economies and communities. They
look at how ancient communities generated and managed
their resources; how they acquired and how they
allocated; and, how they talked about these
activities and thereby integrated these activities
into their everyday lives.
Essays
include a study of the Bronze Age site of Glykys
Limin in Epirus; the economy of Iron Age Cyprus; the
nature of early Greek economic development, with a
particular emphasis on a Greek settlement on the
mouth of the Nile; traders and the economy of Athens
in the fourth century B.C. and the idea of ethnic
identity, as much a function of the nineteenth
century as of the ancient world itself.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Abstracts/Contributors
include: Thomas Tartaron, Jeremy McInerney, David W.
Rupp, Astrid Moeller, Darrel Tai Engen.
David
Tandy is Professor of Classics, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and editor of, with Colin
Duncan, From
Political Ecology to Anthropology,
(Black Rose Books, 1994).
Volume
10 of Critical
Perspectives on Historic Issues
224
pages
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-188-7 $29.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-189-5 $58.99
History
May
2001
