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A collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world

Ancient Taxation is a collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. The contributors discuss the inherent challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy (e.g., taxing goods vs. labor, in-kind vs. money taxes, etc.); the mechanics of assessment and collection; and the politics of negotiating the cooperation of social, economic, and political élites and other important social groups.

In assembling a broad range of studies, this book sheds new light on the commonalities and differences between ancient taxation systems, and so on the broader fiscal and institutional practices of antiquity. It also provides new impetus for further comparative research into extractive practices across ancient societies and between antiquity and recent historical periods.

The book will be of interest to those studying ancient social and economic history, the history of social organization, and the history of ancient Greece and Rome, Egypt, the Ancient Near East, or ancient China.

ISBN-13: 9781479806195

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: New York University Press

Publication Date: 08-24-2021

Pages: 392

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

Series: Isaw Monographs #11

Jonathan Valk is University Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Leiden. Irene Soto Marín is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Curator in the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface xi

1 A State of Extraction: Navigating Taxation in Ancient Polities Jonathan Valk 1

Tax Systems

2 Taxing Questions: Financing the Chinese Bronze Age Roderick B. Campbell 39

3 Co-Option and Patronage: The Mechanics of Extraction in Southern Mesopotamia under the Third Dynasty of Ur Steven Garfinkle 71

4 The Extractive Systems of the Mycenaean World Dimitri Nakassis 93

5 Extracting Cohesion: Fiscal Strategies in the Hittite Staple Economy Lorenzo d'Alfonso Alvise Matessi 128

6 Taxation in Anglo-Saxon England, Fifth-Ninth Centuries CE Pam J. Crabtree 160

7 Taxation, Aristocratic Autonomy, and Theories of Reciprocity in the Iranian Empire Richard E. Payne 178

Tax Transitions

8 Fiscal Transformation during the Formative Period of Ancient Chinese Empire (Late Fourth to First Century BCE) Maxim Korolkov 203

9 The Fiscality of Foreign Relations in the Roman Republic (241-146 BCE) James Tan 262

10 Changes and Limits of Royal Taxation in Pharaonic Egypt (2300-2000 BCE) Juan Carlos Moreno García 290

11 Greek Perspectives on Fiscal Administration under Alexander the Great Andrew Monson 325

12 The Anabolikon Tax and the Study of the Linen Industry in Roman Egypt Irene Soto Marín 343

About the Contributors 369

Index 373