Trade Traders And The Ancient City

Author : Helen Parkins,Christopher Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709410

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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City by Helen Parkins,Christopher Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139461313

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Trade in Classical Antiquity by Neville Morley Pdf

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 : Errietta M. A. Bissa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004175044

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Governmental Intervention in Foreign Trade in Archaic and Classical Greece by Errietta M. A. Bissa Pdf

Trade was a necessity in the ancient Greek world, yet the prevalent scholarly view is that Greek states intervened in foreign trade only rarely and sporadically. This book studies four necessary commodities, gold, silver, ship-building timber and grain, from production through export to import. Through the re-evaluation of known evidence and the presentation of new avenues of research, the book shows that Greek and non-Greek governments in the archaic and classical periods intervened and involved themselves greatly in foreign trade. The book offers the student of the Greek economy a fresh perspective on state intervention in trade and the ways in which intervention worked in the Greek world.

Author : Taco Terpstra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691172088

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Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean by Taco Terpstra Pdf

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 : David B. Hollander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047419129

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Money in the Late Roman Republic by David B. Hollander Pdf

Like coinage, bullion, financial instruments and a variety of commodities played an important role in Rome's monetary system. This book examines how the availability of such assets affected the demand for coinage and the development of the late Republican economy.

Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521198356

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The Ancient City by Arjan Zuiderhoek Pdf

This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.

Author : Timothy Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057817488X

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Traders in the Ancient Mediterranean by Timothy Howe Pdf

Author : Michael C. Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134264704

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Globalizing Roman Culture by Richard Hingley Pdf

Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inhabitants of the Roman provinces were able to develop identities they never knew they had until Rome gave them the language to express them. Hingley draws together the threads of diverse and separate study, in one sophisticated theoretical framework that spans the whole Roman Empire. Students of Rome and those with an interest in classical cultural studies will find this an invaluable mine of information.

Author : Taco T. Terpstra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004238602

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Trading Communities in the Roman World by Taco T. Terpstra Pdf

In Trading Communities, Taco Terpstra shows that long-distance trade in the Roman Empire was conducted through foreign trading communities living overseas, held together by ethnic and geographical identity.

Author : Sylvian Fachard,Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495547

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The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World by Sylvian Fachard,Edward M. Harris Pdf

The book studies examples of destruction of Ancient Greek cities and provides examples of human resilience and economic recovery following catastrophe.

Author : Charles Halton,Saana Svärd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052055

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Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia by Charles Halton,Saana Svärd Pdf

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Joseph Gilbert Manning,Ian Morris
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804757550

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The Ancient Economy by Joseph Gilbert Manning,Ian Morris Pdf

Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed very different methods of analysis for each region. This book marks the first time that historians and archaeologists of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome have come together with sociologists, political scientists, and economists, to ask whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences in the past, or are merely a function of variations in the surviving evidence and the intellectual traditions that have grown up around it. The contributors describe the types of evidence available and demonstrate the need for clearer thought about the relationships between evidence and models in ancient economic history, laying the foundations for a new comparative account of economic structures and growth in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : J. G. Manning
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202303

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The Open Sea by J. G. Manning Pdf

"In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period." -- Publisher's description

Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Eretz Israel
ISBN : 3161508890

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Jewish Travel in Antiquity by Catherine Hezser Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Jewish travel and mobility in Hellenistic and Roman times, based on a critical analysis of Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and early Christian literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources and a social-historical evaluation of the material. Catherine Hezser shows that certain segments of ancient Jewish society were quite mobile. Mobility seems to have increased in the later Roman period, when an extensive road system facilitated travel within the province of Syria-Palestine and the neighbouring Middle Eastern regions. Second Temple Judaism was centralized, with Jerusalem as its central space and seat of priestly authority. In post-70 rabbinic Judaism, on the other hand, connections between rabbis could be established through mutual visits and second- and third-degree contacts only. Mobility formed the basis of the establishment of a decentralized rabbinic network in Palestine and Babylonia in late antiquity. Numerous narrative and halakhic traditions indicate the importance of mobility for communication and the exchange of knowledge amongst rabbis. It is argued that the rabbis who were most mobile sat at the nodal points of the rabbinic network and elicited the largest amount of influence. They would have combined business travel with scholarly exchange. Scholars' journeys between Palestine and Babylonia are viewed within the wider context of Rome and Persia's economic and cultural exchange in which Jews, just like Christians, may have played the role of intermediaries.