The Political Economy of Classical Athens : A Naval Perspective.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (395 pages)
- Mnemosyne, Supplements Series ; v.425 .
- Mnemosyne, Supplements Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures, Tables and Graphs -- Figures -- Tables -- Graph -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Primitive Positions-the Oikos Debate -- 1. The Defining Quartet-Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley -- 2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley -- Chapter 2. New Perspectives -- 1. Institutions-the Engines of History -- 2. Materialist Man and His Motivations -- 3. The Only Constant is Change -- 4. Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation -- 5. The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences -- Chapter 3. Warfare States -- 1. Path Dependence -- 2. The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis -- 3. The Spartan Naval Mirage -- Chapter 4. War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes -- 1. The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy -- 2. Emerging Patterns of War -- 3. Strategy -- 4. Early Athenian Expansionism -- 5. The Transition to Triremes -- 6. Private to Polis Navies -- Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Transition-the Naval Evidence -- 1. Athens' 'Turn to the Sea' -- 2. Casus Belli -- 3. The Athenian Naval Revolution -- 4. Themistocles' Naval Expansion -- Chapter 6. Money, Markets and Naval Procurement -- 1. Coinage, Silver and Money Supply -- 2. Trireme Costs and Lifespan -- 3. Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement -- 4. Provisioning the Fleet-a Network of Markets -- Chapter 7. Naval Institutions-Trierarchy -- 1. The Rules of the Game -- 2. Liturgy-Delivering Public Goods -- 3. Trierarchy-Delivering the Fleet -- 4. Trierarchy in Theory and Practice -- 5. Trierarchy-Institutional Evolution -- 6. Cleruchy-Further Institutional Adaptation -- Chapter 8. Naval Innovation -- 1. The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy -- 2. Naval Technological Innovation-the Ram -- 3. Greek Innovation in Nautical Design -- Chapter 9. Naval Defence Infrastructure -- 1. Shipsheds. 2. The Athenian Circuit Walls -- 3. The Piraeus -- 4. The Long Walls -- 5. Estimating the Costs -- Chapter 10. Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens -- 1. Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence -- 2. Schools of Democracy -- 3. Athenian Trireme Crews -- 4. Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves -- 5. The Trireme School of Democracy -- Chapter 11. The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy -- 1. Economic Growth -- 2. Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets -- 3. The Athenian Labour Market -- 4. The Naval Economy -- 5. Size Matters -- Chapter 12. The Wealth of Naval Athens -- 1. The Versatile Trireme -- 2. Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments -- 3. The Business of Empire -- 4. Costs of War -- 5. Ancient Athenian Keynesians -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Political Economy of Classical Athens - a Naval Perspective, Barry O'Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic efflorescence.