Trade in classical antiquity

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Label

Trade in classical antiquity

Statement of responsibility

Neville Morley

Creator

• Morley, Neville

Subject

• Commerce -- History -- To 500
• Mediterranean Region -- Commerce | History
• Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs

Language

eng

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.--

Member of

• Key themes in ancient history

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Key themes in ancient history
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks