Loading...
Trade in the ancient Mediterranean : private order and public 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 Mediterra...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Princeton
: Princeton University Press
, 2020
|
| Series: | The Princeton economic history of the western world
Princeton scholarship online |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691172088.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Taco Terpstra |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology |
| Summary: | 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? This text investigates how the organizational structure of trade benefited from state institutions |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9780691189703 |
