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This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...
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Roman period -- Chapter 15: Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework … families in the Roman World -- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement … Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. He teaches Ancient History, specializing in the Roman World, with a particular interest in economy …
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regional and local trade, dealt with their Western counterparts, and how Asian commodities penetrated other parts of the world …
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In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...
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: Mercantilism as a world economic order -- Part III: African Experience in the Long Run -- Chapter 6: Medieval African economies …
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy -- Chapter 3: Finance and Banking -- Chapter 4: Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries -- Chapter 5: The Rome Stock Exchange and the...
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the Aryan civilization from India into the rest of the world, the links between ancient Russia, India, Japan, and Greece …
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bread production in the Roman world to reveal the nuances of an industry that fed an empire. Inscriptions, Roman law, and …
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Century BC -- 6. Domum pestilentem vendo: Real Estate Market and Information Asymmetry in the Roman World -- 7. Marriage and … -- Part 4: Trade and Financial Markets -- 10. Information Landscapes and Economic Practice in the Roman World -- 11. Roman …This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing …
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Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity? -- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives -- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach -- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers...
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