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Antiquity and Capitalism: Max Weber and the Sociological Foundations of Roman Civilization [Hardcover]

John R. Love (Author)

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Publication Date: April 25, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0415047501 | ISBN-13: 978-0415047500 | Edition: 1

This ambitious book addresses questions concerning an old theme - the rise and fall of ancient civilization - but does so from a distinctive theoretical perspective by taking its lead from the work of the great German sociologist Max Weber.

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John R. Love is Ashworth Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 25, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415047501
ISBN-13: 978-0415047500
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
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Well this is really a question of terminology. Read the first page

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apophora system, villa husbandry, latifundist agriculture, societates publicanorum, ancient capitalism, political capitalism, ager publicas, maritime loans, ager publicus, ancient estate, rational capitalism, using slave labour, million denarii, ancient economy, unfree labour, state contracting, terracotta lamps, oriented capitalism, tax farming, rational technology, capital accounting, ius civile, ancient conditions, agri cultura, natural economy

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The Agrarian Sociology, The Protestant Ethic, Moses Finley, Keith Hopkins, Max Weber, Second Punic War, Ste Croix, Tenny Frank, Martin Frederiksen, The Satyricon, William Harris

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This book cites 100 books:

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Economy Editions) by Max Weber on 11 pages
The Protestant Ethic And the Spirit of Capitalism by Gilbert Geis on 11 pages
The Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures) by M. I. Finley on 8 pages
General Economic History by Max Weber on 6 pages
Trade in the Ancient Economy by Peter Garnsey on 6 pages

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17 books cite this book:

The Cambridge Companion to Weber (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Stephen Turner in Front Matter, page 243, and Back Matter
Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. by Professor Daniel C. Snell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Economic Writings: Selections 1904-1945 (Vienna Circle Collection) by Otto Neurath on page 97, and page 151
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Jairus Banaji in Back Matter
Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society) by David J. Mattingly on page 294

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