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Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business
ISBN : 0511294786
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
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 052163279X
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
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139461313
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
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913701147
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 : Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317575993
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 : Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351732444
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 : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520024362
"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 : Peter Garnsey,Keith Hopkins,C. R. Whittaker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520048032
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780521453370
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Author : Max Koedijk,Neville Morley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030938336
This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty’s work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically. The book derives from a research workshop in Berlin in April 2018, which brought together a group of established and early career scholars to discuss the implications of Piketty’s work and related themes for classical antiquity. Key questions reflected in the text include:d: How should we characterise the ‘development’ of the economy/economies of the classical Mediterranean, in relation to the role of ‘capital’ and the prevalence of inequality? How was wealth, both public and private, evaluated and managed? How much of the wealth of their society did the ancient 1% control – and is their dominance better understood in terms of the power of capital, or the role of predation and state capture? How far did certain ancient polities – above all the Greek city-states – succeed in placing limits on the power of the rich and integrating their interests with those of the masses? Did inequality increase between the height of the Roman Principate and late antiquity, as is often believed? This book will be valuable reading for academics and students working in economic history, ancient history, and other related fields.
Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444305123
The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how theseconnect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Presents a study of modernity that examines classicalinfluences Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychologicaltheories Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, includingAdam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud
Author : Walter Scheidel,Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136069468
The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production to the uses of money and the creation of markets. Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it. In doing so it draws on literary, ecological and archaeological evidence.
Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521892902
Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.
Author : Matthew A. Cobb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004376571
In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb explores the development of commercial exchanges between the Mediterranean world and civilisations in East Africa, Southern Arabia and the India from the Augustan period to the early third century CE.
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1905905173
Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the sixth to fifth century BC from the submerged harbour of Heracleion-Thonis through to studies of connectivity and trade in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Antique period. The majority of the papers, however, focus on the high point in ancient maritime trade during the Roman period and examine developments in shipping, port facilities and trading routes.
