Trade Transport And Society In The Ancient World Routledge Revivals

Author : Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317575993

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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 : Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:25025435

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

Author : Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Anthony Keddie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493949

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Class and Power in Roman Palestine by Anthony Keddie Pdf

Examines how socioeconomic relations between Judaean elites and non-elites changed as Palestine became part of the Roman Empire.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787997

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Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Nigel Wilson Pdf

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691177946

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The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin Pdf

What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.

Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1941 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135942069

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Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition by Graham Speake Pdf

Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.

Author : M.I. Finley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136505645

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Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals) by M.I. Finley Pdf

Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the post-war years, of explanatory, ‘structuralist’ studies of this period in Roman history. The topics treated include Athenian politics, the Roman conquest of the east, violence in the later Roman Republic, the second Sophistic, and persecutions of the early Christians. The authors have all produced original studies, a number of which have generated significant research by other ancient historians.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037614323

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Ancient Trade and Society by Lionel Casson Pdf

Author : Michael C. Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Helen Parkins,Christopher Smith,Director Christopher Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 041551892X

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

This comprehensive and well-documented book provides a critically up-to-date analysis of trade in the ancient world, which takes into account a diverse range of evidence.

Author : Cynthia Clark Northrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 1317471512

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Encyclopedia of World Trade by Cynthia Clark Northrup Pdf

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 052163279X

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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.