The Boundaries Of Ancient Trade

Author : Helina Solomon Woldekiros
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646424733

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The Boundaries of Ancient Trade by Helina Solomon Woldekiros Pdf

Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail—one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world. For thousands of years, farmers in the Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea have run caravans of nearly 250,000 people and pack animals annually along an eighty-mile route through both cold, high-altitude farmlands and some of the hottest volcanic desert terrain on earth. In her fieldwork, archaeologist Helina Solomon Woldekiros followed the route with her own donkey and camel caravan, observing and interviewing over 150 Arho (caravaners), salt miners, salt cutters, warehouse owners, brokers, shop owners, and salt village residents to model the political economy of the ancient Aksumite state. The first integrated ethnoarchaeological and archaeological research on this legendary route, this volume provides evidence that informal economies and local participation have played a critical role in regional trade and, ultimately, in maintaining the considerable power of the Aksumite state. Woldekiros also contributes new insights into the logistics of pack animal–based trade and variability in the central and regional organization of global ancient trade. Using a culturally informed framework for understanding the organization of the ancient salt route and its role in linking the Aksumite state to rural highland agricultural and lowland mobile pastoralist populations, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade makes a key contribution to theoretical discussions of hierarchy and more diffuse power structures in ancient states. This work generates new interest in the region as an area of global relevance in archaeological and anthropological debates on landscape, social interaction, and practice theories.

Author : Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317575986

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Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge Revivals) by Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer Pdf

This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity and speed of ancient ships. It is clear that the actual means of transportation were crucial; the book illustrates the limitations of ancient transport technology and the consequences for the development of commerce. It focuses first on different aspects of transport over land and then on transport by river and concludes with a discussion of several aspects of ancient seafaring, This book is ideal for students of ancient history.

Author : Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471530

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present by Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik Pdf

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

Author : Michael C. Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786490332

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Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies by Michael C. Howard Pdf

While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states, paying particular attention to the role of long-distance trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. It examines the obstacles voyagers faced, including limited travel and communication capabilities, relatively poor geographical knowledge, and the dangers of a fragmented and shifting political landscape, and offers profiles of better-known transnational elites such as the Hellenic scholar Herodotus and the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, as well lesser known servants, merchants, and sailors. By revealing the important political, economic, and cultural role cross-border trade and travel played in ancient society, this work demonstrates that transnationalism is not unique to modern times. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608062715

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Ancient Trade and Society by Lionel Casson Pdf

Author : Gladys G. Buck,Josephine Buck Jones
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780787705954

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Early Africa by Gladys G. Buck,Josephine Buck Jones Pdf

Explore the fascinating kingdoms of ancient Africa! This book covers the mighty African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay--rich in culture and tradition--that sprang up along the continent s west coast as far back as 300 B.C. Rivaling the great ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, these early African cultures, through strength and ingenuity, overcame tremendous odds in adapting to the often harsh African climate and environment. Special emphasis is given to the rich tradition of African arts in the form of music, dance, and sculpture as well as to the prominence of religion and the importance of the family as principal organizing features of African society. An extensive teacher guide, crossword puzzles, map activities, comprehension questions, as well as critical thinking questions are included.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037614323

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Ancient Trade and Society by Lionel Casson Pdf

Author : Xiangming Chen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742500938

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As Borders Bend by Xiangming Chen Pdf

As do other mighty forces such as wars, nationalist aspirations, and the shifting courses of great rivers, globalization changes the world's borders by bending them out of shape and creating new transnational spaces. State political boundaries no longer draw the definitive line in people's lives they once did. Borders continue to contain self-described national populations and national activities, but the penetration of economic globalization via growing cross-border trade, investment, and resurgence of myriad regional ethnic groups is pushing and stretching the limits of borders into both interactive spaces and contested terrains. Indeed, new power centers with their own identities are springing out of once politically trivial and economically marginal landscapes. While the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the SARS outbreak of 2003 prompted states to tighten border controls, their efforts amount to only a temporary reversal of a powerful long-term trend toward more open borders and the interactive transnational spaces that openness fosters. This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a structured comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended comparative analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen offers a synthetic explanation for the complex and diverse processes and outcomes of economic growth, social transformation, infrastructure development, and urban landscapes in the new transnational spaces around the porous and mutated borders on the Pacific Rim and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1427196443

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Trade and Commerce in the Ancient World by Anonim Pdf

This amazing book provides a snapshot of trade and commerce within and sometimes between various ancient civilizations. Read about* Africa's trans-Sahara caravan routes and trade with the rest of the world;* the Greek agora, or marketplace* China's silk road.

Author : Jeremy A. Sabloff,Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C C Lamberg-Karlovsky
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1934691984

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Ancient Civilization and Trade by Jeremy A. Sabloff,Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C C Lamberg-Karlovsky Pdf

The contributors to this volume explore trade's dynamic role in the growth of early civilizations from the vantage points of archaeology, economics, social anthropology, and cultural geography. They examine such topics as central-place theory, information flow, early state modules, long-distance trade, classes of trade, and modes of exchange. Discussion of the development of early civilizations, the change from chiefdom to state, and the formation of trading networks all combine to provide a useful view of the different archaeological approaches to the study of trade and its role in the growth of civilization.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business
ISBN : 0511294786

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Trade in Classical Antiquity by Neville Morley Pdf

This 2007 book examines the significance of ancient trade using ecological and cultural, as well as economic, perspectives.

Author : Timothy Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057817488X

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Traders in the Ancient Mediterranean by Timothy Howe Pdf

Author : André Tchernia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191091094

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The Romans and Trade by André Tchernia Pdf

André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it. The book is divided into two main parts. The first is a general study of the structure of Roman trade: Landowners and traders, traders' fortunes, the matter of the market, the role of the state, and dispatching what is required. It tackles the recent debates on Roman trade and Roman economy, providing, original and convincing answers. The second part of the book is a selection of 14 of the author's published papers. They range from discussions of general topics such as the ideas of crisis and competition, the approvisioning of Ancient Rome, trade with the East, to more specialized studies, such as the interpretation of the 33 AD crisis. Overall, the book contains a wealth of insights into the workings of ancient trade and expertly combines discussion of the material evidence-especially of amphorae and wrecks-with the prosopographical approach derived from epigraphic, papyrological and historical data.

Author : Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:902484713

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Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World by Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf Pdf

Author : Karl Reinhold Haellquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136100741

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Asian Trade Routes by Karl Reinhold Haellquist Pdf

First Published in 2004. These essays deal with the Western penetration of Asia from the earliest times to the recent past in the quest for trade, and by means of opening up routes and communications to bridge East and West, thereby influencing societies, economies and cultures. The relevant sections cover West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.