Trade, Traders and the Ancient City - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415165172 ISBN 13: 9780415165174

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy.
Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

About this title

Product Description:

Trade, Traders and the Ancient City This comprehensive and well-documented book provides a critically up-to-date analysis of trade in the ancient world, which takes into account a diverse range of evidence.

Review:

"Largely derived from a conference held at the University of St.Andrews in 1995, this collection of 11 essays takes a fresh look at the relationship between the city and the ancient economy...Taken as a whole, these articles attempt to move beyond the standard primitivist versus modernist view of the ancient economy, though most seem more comfortable in the latter camp. Even so, they try to address the question in new ways...Contributors present their arguments in a clear fashion largely devoid of the confusing jargon typical of books devoted to the subject. In doing so they have created a work bound to pique the interest both of the newcomers to the field and of general readers and to stimulate discussion among expert scholars.."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415165172
• ISBN 13: 9780415165174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Parkins Helen, Smith Christopher