Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade

Author:   Federico De Romanis ,  Marco Maiuro
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers
Volume:   41
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9781336098961


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Format:   Electronic book text
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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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Author:   Federico De Romanis ,  Marco Maiuro
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Brill Academic Publishers
Volume:   41
ISBN:  

9781336098961


ISBN 10:   1336098961
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Federico De Romanis is Associate Professor at the Universita di Roma Tor Vergata . His publications include Cassia, cinnamomo, ossidiana. Uomini e merci tra Oceano Indiano e Mediterraneo (Rome 1996, 2006) and, as coeditor with A. Tchernia, Crossings: Early Mediterranean Contacts with India (Manohar 1997). Marco Maiuro taught ancient history at Columbia University 2008-2014. Author of Res Caesaris. Ricerche sulla proprieta imperiale nel Principato (Bari 2012), he is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University and Associate Fellow of Columbia's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies. Contributors are: Jean-Jacques Aubert, Jairus Banaji, Federico De Romanis, Harry Falk, Martha C. Howell, E. Lo Cascio, Marco Maiuro, Dario Nappo, Katia Schorle, Taco Terpstra and Andrew Wilson.

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