Trade in Classical Antiquity

Trade in Classical Antiquity

by Neville Morley
ISBN-10:
0521634164
ISBN-13:
9780521634168
Pub. Date:
04/19/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521634164
ISBN-13:
9780521634168
Pub. Date:
04/19/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Trade in Classical Antiquity

Trade in Classical Antiquity

by Neville Morley

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521634168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/19/2007
Series: Key Themes in Ancient History
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Neville Morley is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Bristol. His previous publications include Metropolis and Hinterland: the City of Rome and the Italian Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Models and Concepts in Ancient History (2004).

Table of Contents

1. Trade and the ancient economy; 2. Ecology and economics; 3. Commodities and consumption; 4. Institutions and infrastructure; 5. Markets, merchants and morality; 6. The limits of ancient globalisation.
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