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Across the ocean : nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade /
Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan'...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique Actes de congrès eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Collection: | Columbia studies in the classical tradition ;
volume 41. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Acknowledgements; List of Table, Figures, and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Cradle of the Ancient India Trade: The Red Sea; Chapter 1 Red Sea Trade and the State; Chapter 2 Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea?; Chapter 3 Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire; Chapter 4 Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century CE; Chapter 5 Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli; Part 2 Comparative Perspectives on the India Trade.
- Chapter 6 Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the MillenniaChapter 7 'Regions that Look Seaward': Changing Fortunes, Submerged Histories, and the Slow Capitalism of the Sea; Chapter 8 Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade; Chapter 9 Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets During the Early Modern Period; Afterword; References; Index of Sources; General Index.