Across the ocean : nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade /

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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Corporate Author: Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.) (Conference) Columbia University)

Other Authors: De Romanis, Federico., Maiuro, Marco.

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.

Subjects:

Mediterranean Region > Commerce > History > Congresses.
Mediterranean Region > History > 476-1517 > Congresses.
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Call Number: HF3750.7 .T35 2011eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Federico De Romanis and Marco Maiuro
  • 1 Red Sea Trade and the State /
  • Andrew Wilson
  • 2 Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea? /
  • Jean-Jacques Aubert
  • 3 Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire /
  • Katia Schörle
  • 4 Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century ce /
  • Dario Nappo
  • 5 Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli /
  • Taco Terpstra
  • 6 Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the Millennia /
  • Harry Falk
  • 7 'Regions that Look Seaward': Changing Fortunes, Submerged Histories, and the Slow Capitalism of the Sea /
  • Jairus Banaji
  • 8 Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade /
  • Federico De Romanis
  • 9 Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets During the Early Modern Period /
  • Martha Howell
  • Afterword /
  • Elio Lo Cascio
  • References
  • Index of Sources
  • General Index.