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oapen-20.500.12657-861762023-12-16T02:25:06Z Cities and Citadels Green, Adam Wilkinson, Toby Wilkinson, Darryl Highcock, Nancy Leppard, Thomas ancient economics;archaeology;Bronze age;egalitarian urbanism;human economies;Iron age bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book takes up the challenging new theories of scholars like Thomas Piketty, Mariana Mazzucato and David Graeber and explores their importance for the study of human economies in ancient and prehistoric contexts. Drawing on case studies from the Neolithic to the Classical Era and spanning the globe, the authors put forward a new narrative of economic change that is relevant to the 21st century. This book speaks to the study of economics in all ancient societies and is suitable for researchers of archaeology, economics, economic history and all related disciplines. 2023-12-15T09:53:13Z 2023-12-15T09:53:13Z 2024 book 9781032024851 9781003183563 9781032024844 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86176 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003833130.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003183563 10.4324/9781003183563 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b595d8a6-5902-4cd3-81e0-7f8a843479ac 9781032024851 9781003183563 9781032024844 Routledge 287 University of York The University of York open access
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Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.
Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book takes up the challenging new theories of scholars like Thomas Piketty, Mariana Mazzucato and David Graeber and explores their importance for the study of human economies in ancient and prehistoric contexts. Drawing on case studies from the Neolithic to the Classical Era and spanning the globe, the authors put forward a new narrative of economic change that is relevant to the 21st century.
This book speaks to the study of economics in all ancient societies and is suitable for researchers of archaeology, economics, economic history and all related disciplines.
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