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Author : Peter Garnsey
Release : 1983-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Trade in the Ancient Economy by : Peter Garnsey
Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Economy written by Peter Garnsey. This book was released on 1983-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moses I. Finley
Release : 1973
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ancient Economy by : Moses I. Finley
Download or read book The Ancient Economy written by Moses I. Finley. This book was released on 1973. 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 : Taco Terpstra
Release : 2019-04-09
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean by : Taco Terpstra
Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Taco Terpstra. This book was released on 2019-04-09. 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 : Neville Morley
Release : 2007-04-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 311/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trade in Classical Antiquity by : Neville Morley
Download or read book Trade in Classical Antiquity written by Neville Morley. This book was released on 2007-04-19. 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 : Helen Parkins
Release : 2005-06-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 412/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trade, Traders and the Ancient City by : Helen Parkins
Download or read book Trade, Traders and the Ancient City written by Helen Parkins. This book was released on 2005-06-20. 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.
