Across the ocean : nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade / edited by Federico De Romanis and Marco Maiuro

Conference Author: Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.) (Conference) (2011 : Columbia University)
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Copyright Date: ©2015
Physical Description: vi, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: De Romanis, Federico and Maiuro, Marco

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Series

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 41.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The Cradle of the Ancient India Trade: The Red Sea -- 1.Red Sea Trade and the State / Andrew Wilson -- 2.Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea? / Jean-Jacques Aubert -- 3.Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire / Katia Schorle -- 4.Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century CE / Dario Nappo -- 5.Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli / Taco Terpstra -- pt. 2 Comparative Perspectives on the India Trade -- 6.Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the Millennia / Harry Falk -- 7.`Regions that Look Seaward': Changing Fortunes, Submerged Histories, and the Slow Capitalism of the Sea / Jairus Banaji -- 8.Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade / Federico De Romanis -- 9.Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets During the Early Modern Period / Martha Howell.

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ISBN

9789004289192 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004289194 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004289536 (e-book)

Note

"This volume is a collection of papers delivered at the conference "A Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.)," held at the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, March 4th-5th, 2011"--Acknowledgment.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and indexes.

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