• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Gift and gain : how money transformed Ancient Rome
  • Contributor: Coffee, Neil [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017
  • Published in: Classical culture and society
  • Extent: 1 online resource; illustrations (black and white)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190496432.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780190496456
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: NH 8550 : Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
  • Keywords: Römisches Reich > Geldwirtschaft > Geschenk > Sozialer Wandel
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Previously issued in print: 2017. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2016)
  • Description: 'Gift and Gain' shows how, over the course of Rome's classical era, a vibrant commercial culture progressively displaced traditional systems of gift giving that had long been central to Rome's material, social, and political economy, with effects on areas of life from marriage to politics.