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Across the ocean [nine essa...
Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan's Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC
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monografia Rebiun18727023 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun18727023 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 150305t20152015ne ob 101 0 eng d 9789004289536 9004289534 9781336098961 1336098961 9789004289192 9004289194 NT eng rda pn NT IDEBK E7B OSU CDX YDXCP DEBSZ COO EBLCP OCLCA OCLCF OCLCQ COCUF LOA MERUC UNAV 382.0937/01824 23 Across the ocean Recurso electrónico] nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade edited by Federico De Romanis and Marco Maiuro Leiden Boston Brill [2015] Leiden Boston Leiden Boston Brill ix, 204 p. ix, 204 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Columbia studies in the classical tradition 41 "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 Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Acknowledgements; List of Table, Figures, and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 The Cradle of the Ancient India Trade: The Red Sea; Chapter 1 Red Sea Trade and the State; Chapter 2 Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea?; Chapter 3 Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire; Chapter 4 Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century CE; Chapter 5 Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli; Part 2 Comparative Perspectives on the India Trade Chapter 6 Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the MillenniaChapter 7 'Regions that Look Seaward': Changing Fortunes, Submerged Histories, and the Slow Capitalism of the Sea; Chapter 8 Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade; Chapter 9 Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets During the Early Modern Period; Afterword; References; Index of Sources; General Index Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan's Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC Forma de acceso: World Wide Web De Romanis, Federico Maiuro, Marco