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'...
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Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
Series:
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
41.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287402.
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Call Number: HF3750.7 .T35 2011eb
| Summary: | 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's Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume is a collection of papers delivered at the conference "A Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.)," held at the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, March 4th-5th, 2011"--Acknowledgment. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004289536 |
| ISSN: | 0166-1302 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |