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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The author’s scholarly heft will impress and persuade his audience as to the validity and significance of his insights and contributions; 125 pages of endnotes and bibliography buttress his case."
---A.R. Sanderson, Choice"The truly new ground explored in
The Open Sea lies at the intersection of environmental and economic history. . . . Manning provides a thoughtful overview of the challenges and prospects we face in integrating the paleoclimate into the study of ancient economies. . . . An expert and bracing survey."
---Kyle Harper, EH.net"The list of scholars who could produce a volume of this breadth and depth is surely a short one." * Journal of Markets and Morality *
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The book must be judged a success . . . . especially in its first objective of providing the reader with an idea of
what the debate looks like at present, and a sense of where it might be going in the near future. Manning
has digested a colossal amount of scholarship, This book deserves to be on the shelf of anyone looking to see past the disciplinary boundaries of Graeco-Roman history and to understand how these civilisations fitted into a wider world.
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---David Lewis, Journal of Greek Archaeology
