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Trading Communities in the Roman World /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Columbia studies in the classical tradition.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Intra-Community Exchange and the Use of Law in Puteoli; Legal Interaction and Personal Knowledge; The Murecine Tablets: Archive and Archaeology; Intra-Community Exchange in Puteoli; Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Puteoli; Path Dependence: 'History Matters'; Path Dependence: 'Sunk' Organizational Capital; Path Dependence: Satisfactory Outcomes; Conclusion; Chapter Two Inter-Community Exchange and the Role of Trading Stations in Puteoli; Intra- and Inter-Community Trade.
- Inter-Community Exchange and the Debate on the Roman EconomyInter-City Trade in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Florence; Individual Legal Responsibility; The Murecine Tablets; A Micro-Economic Model of Inter-Community Exchange; The Tyrian Trading Station; Tyrian Agents as a Trading 'Bridge'; Overseas Agency as a General System of Exchange in Puteoli; Conclusion; Chapter Three Coalitions of Foreign Merchants and Shipowners in Ostia; The Maghribis' Coalition and Medieval Trade; Comparing the Maghribis and Trade Networks in the Roman Empire.
- The Ostian Material Evidence: the 'Piazzale delle Corporazioni'The Role and Importance of Coalition-Membership; Overseas Settlers in Ostia; Conclusion; Chapter Four Inter-Community Trade and the City of Rome; Orbis in Urbe; Stationes on the Forum Iulium; Stationes on the Sacra Via; Ephesians in Rome; Palmyrenes in Rome; Syrians in Rome; The Western Provinces and Africa; Conclusion; Chapter Five Roman Traders in the Province of Asia; The Roman East as a Case-Study; Law and Life of Asia; Romans Resident in Ephesus; Romans Resident in Magnesia and Tralles; Romans Resident in Apamea.
- The Roman Settlers' Social PositionConclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.