The Open Sea : The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

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A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theo