Bronze Age Economics: The First Political Economies

By Timothy Earle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367314711
• ISBN13: 9780367314712
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"