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Author Morley, Neville.

Title Trade in classical antiquity / Neville Morley.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Key themes in ancient history
Key themes in ancient history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-116) and index.
Contents Preface -- Trade and the ancient economy -- Ecology and economics -- Commodities and consumption -- Institutions and infrastructure -- Markets, merchants and morality -- The limits of ancient globalisation -- Bibliographical essay -- References -- Index.
Summary Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This 2007 book explores the nature and importance of ancient trade, considering its ecological and cultural significance as well as its economic aspects.
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Subject Commerce -- History -- To 500.
Commerce.
History.
Chronological Term To 500
Subject Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History.
Mediterranean Region.
Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Morley, Neville. Trade in classical antiquity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521632799 (DLC) 2007279544 (OCoLC)60741018
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