Trade In Classical Antiquity

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511294785
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade in Classical Antiquity written by Neville Morley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 book examines the significance of ancient trade using ecological and cultural, as well as economic, perspectives.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461311
Total Pages : 103 pages
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Download or read book Trade in Classical Antiquity written by Neville Morley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This 2007 book explores the nature and importance of ancient trade, considering its ecological and cultural significance as well as its economic aspects.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521632799
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Trade in Classical Antiquity written by Neville Morley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This 2007 book explores the nature and importance of ancient trade, considering its ecological and cultural significance as well as its economic aspects.

Author : C. R. Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 191370114X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade and Famine in Classical Antiquity written by C. R. Whittaker and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade in antiquity - its scale, status, pattern and context - is the subject of lively debate among historians. But no analysis has made a special investigation of trade in essential food stuffs. Famine and food crisis are also neglected subjects. This collection of essays is structured around the two focal points of trade and famine. A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system.

Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520048034
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Economy written by Peter Garnsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520024366
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Economy written by Moses I. Finley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Author : Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351732447
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity written by Matthew Adam Cobb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and cultural exchange between various civilisations in Africa, Europe and Asia. This was in large part thanks to the Indian Ocean trade. Peoples living in the Roman Empire, Parthia, India and South East Asia increasingly had access to exotic foreign products, while the lands from which they derived, and the peoples inhabiting these lands, also captured the imagination, finding expression in a number of literary and poetic works. The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity provides a range of chapters that explore the economic, political and cultural impact of this trade on these diverse societies, written by international experts working in the fields of Classics, Archaeology, South Asian studies, Near Eastern studies and Art History. The three major themes of the book are the development of this trade, how consumption and exchange impacted on societal developments, and how the Indian Ocean trade influenced the literary creations of Graeco-Roman and Indian authors. This volume will be of interest not only to academics and students of antiquity, but also to scholars working on later periods of Indian Ocean history who will find this work a valuable resource.

Author : Taco Terpstra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172080
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Taco Terpstra and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean would ever know, the Roman Empire. Subsequent economic decline coincided with state disintegration. How are the two processes related? In Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean, Taco Terpstra investigates how the organizational structure of trade benefited from state institutions. Although enforcement typically depended on private actors, traders could utilize a public infrastructure, which included not only courts and legal frameworks but also socially cohesive ideologies. Terpstra details how business practices emerged that were based on private order, yet took advantage of public institutions. Focusing on the activity of both private and public economic actors—from Greek city councilors and Ptolemaic officials to long-distance traders and Roman magistrates and financiers—Terpstra illuminates the complex relationship between economic development and state structures in the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521453372
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money in Classical Antiquity written by Sitta von Reden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Author : Helen Parkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134709412
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade, Traders and the Ancient City written by Helen Parkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.