The Romans and trade

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"This book brings together André Tchernia's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it"--Jacket.

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Title Statements

Full title :The Romans and trade / André Tchernia ; translated by James Grieve (with Elizabeth Minchin).

Summary

"This book brings together André Tchernia's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it"--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:[English edition]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

Notes

"First Edition published in 2011 by Centre Jean Berard & Centre Camille Jullian."--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 380 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198723717, 9780198723714
oclc:ocn962484062
LC Classification:HF377
Dewey Decimal:381.0937

Part I. The Romans and trade: 1. Landowners and traders: Products of the estate : A broad connotation -- The landowner's range of activities -- The separation between production and long-distance trading -- Senators engaged in the export business? -- Ideological problems -- Secrecy theory -- Financing trade and its channels -- conclusion -- 2. Traders' fortunes: Seneca and Cornelius Senecio -- Those who Are trying to make their fortune honourably, via trade -- Between Puteoli and the Red Sea -- Painted inscriptions on the Amphorae from Baetica -- Urban fortunes -- Diversity and specificity -- 3. The matter of the market: The enormous conglomeration of interdependent markets : A Red Herring -- Divergent opinions -- Archaeological evidence and its interpretation -- Modes of transport -- The influence of transaction costs : Growing inequality -- Paradoxes -- 4. The role of the state: Limits to state participation -- Supplying the army -- Side effects of food-supply policy -- Demography -- Conclusion -- 5. Meeting needs -- Part II. Scripta varia: 6. Dreams of wealth, loans, and seaborne trade -- 7. The sale of wine: The point of view of the producer -- The point of view of the buyer -…