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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...

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VerfasserIn: Terpstra, Taco T. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2020
Schriftenreihe:The Princeton economic history of the western world
Princeton scholarship online
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Online Zugang:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691172088.001.0001
Verantwortlich:Taco Terpstra
E-Book-Pakete:Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index
Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
ISBN:9780691189703