This text includes 12 chapters that explore themes of travel, exchange and production that focus on our understanding of the seafaring peoples of the second millennium BC.
Ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied the Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. Large fleets of Roman freighters set sail from Egypt on voyages to kingdoms on the east coasts of Africa and southern Arabia. Many …
"Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the …
"Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the …
Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before the emergence of the nation-…
Merchants, pirates, and smugglers: criminalization, economics, and the transformatio…
by Lambert, Bart, Barros, Amandio, Baur, Kilian, Carr, Mike, Christ, Georg, Daniels, Tobias, Dartmann, Christoph, Kelleher, Marie, Krey, Alexander, Meichsner, Michael, Miranda, Flavio, Mozeijko, Beata, Sohmer Tai, Emily, Vognsen Hansen, Frederik
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