The Political Economy of Classical Athens : A Naval Perspective.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.