Book Reviews: By time period: Ancient
- Adam Smith and the Classics: The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith's Thought
- by Gloria Vivenza
- reviewed by Leonidas Montes on March 19, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought
- by Leonidas Montes
- reviewed by Peter McNamara on September 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance
- by Jairus Banaji
- reviewed by George Grantham on May 12, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries (A), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H), Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance (I)
- The Ancient Economy
- by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (editors)
- reviewed by Morris Silver on January 3, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models
- by Joseph G. Manning and Ian Morris (editors)
- reviewed by Astrid Moeller on December 28, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline: Historiography; Sources and Methods (C), Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
- by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (editors)
- reviewed by William J. Collins on May 13, 2003
- Geographic area: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean (5), North America (7)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Prehistoric (1), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U)
- Baetica Felix: People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
- by Evan W. Haley
- reviewed by George Grantham on July 27, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Banking and Business in the Roman World
- by Jean Andreau
- reviewed by David Tandy on January 29, 2001
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Business History (B), Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans
- by R. A. Donkin
- reviewed by Gerrit Knaap on July 21, 2004
- Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0), Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
- by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller (editors)
- reviewed by Peter Temin on May 11, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F)
- Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective
- by Luigino Bruni
- reviewed by Edd Noell on March 7, 2007
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
- by David J. Mattingly and John Salmon (editors)
- reviewed by Darel Engen on February 4, 2003
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Industry: Manufacturing and Construction (R), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece
- by Takeshi Amemiya
- reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on April 15, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- The Heqanakht Papyri
- by James P. Allen
- reviewed by Morris Silver on November 9, 2004
- Geographic area: Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Business History (B), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- by Olivia Remie Constable
- reviewed by Avner Greif on July 25, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
- by David M. Schaps
- reviewed by Morris Silver on April 19, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
- by Charles M. Reed
- reviewed by Darel Tai Engen on July 14, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
- by Andrew Meadows and Kirsty Shipton (editors)
- reviewed by David M. Schaps on April 8, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
- by Richard Seaford
- reviewed by David Tandy on March 9, 2005
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History (H)
- Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
- by Astrid Möller
- reviewed by David Tandy on February 13, 2002
- Geographic area: Africa (1), Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Markets and Institutions (W)
- Poverty in the Roman World
- by Margaret Atkins and Robin Osborne (editors)
- reviewed by Willem M. Jongman on July 19, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: Servitude and Slavery (N), Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology (U), Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender (X)
- Secular Cycles
- by Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov
- reviewed by Harry Kitsikopoulos on December 30, 2009
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 16th Century (4), 17th Century (5), 18th Century (6), 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8)
- Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity (D), Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History (F), Historical Demography, including Migration (J), Macroeconomics and Fluctuations (V)
- Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
- by Pierre Force
- reviewed by Gloria Vivenza on September 20, 2004
- Geographic area: Europe (4)
- Time period: General or Comparative (0), Ancient (2), Medieval (3), 18th Century (6)
- Subject: History of Economic Thought; Methodology (L)
- Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
- by S. Suresh
- reviewed by Himanshu Prabha Ray on May 10, 2005
- Geographic area: Asia (2)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
- Trade in Classical Antiquity
- by Neville Morley
- reviewed by Peter Temin on June 29, 2008
- Geographic area: Europe (4), Middle East (6)
- Time period: Ancient (2)
- Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S)
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