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BRONZE AGE ECONOMICS
THE FIRST POLITICAL ECONOMIES |
| By: |
Timothy K. Earle |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813338778 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813338774 |
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| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
27 February, 2002 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
This integrated collection of new and newly revised essays by archaeologist Timothy Earle represents both a personal journey and a growing synthesis of how political economies emerged in human societies. Drawing in detail on the cases of chiefdoms in Hawaii, the Andes, and Denmark, Bronze Age Economics documents how intensification of economies, surplus mobilization, and controlled distribution of both staple and prestige goods fundamentally drove the political evolutionary processes that prefigured states. Representing as it does the trajectory of Earle's lifework, this book fairly encapsulates the history of processual archaeology and social evolutionary theory over the past quarter century. |
| Synopsis: |
This integrated collection of new and newly revised essays by archaeologist Timothy Earle represents both a personal journey and a growing synthesis of how political economies emerged in human societies. Drawing in detail on the cases of chiefdoms in Hawaii, the Andes, and Denmark, Bronze Age Economics documents how intensification of economies, surplus mobilization, and controlled distribution of both staple and prestige goods fundamentally drove the political evolutionary processes that prefigured states. Representing as it does the trajectory of Earle's lifework, this book fairly encapsulates the history of processual archaeology and social evolutionary theory over the past quarter century. |
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US |
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Westview Press Inc |
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