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Download or read book Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History written by Heather D. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market development"--