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Title Trade, traders, and the ancient city / edited by Helen Parkins and Christopher Smith
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient economy / Helen Parkins -- 2. The Old Assyrian merchants / Amelie Kuhrt -- 3. Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy / Christopher Smith -- 4. Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods: some observations / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- 5. Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport amphoras and history / Mark Lawall -- 6. The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC / Michael Whitby -- 7. Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the economy / Ray Laurence -- 8. Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure, and organisation / Jeremy Paterson -- 9. Trade and the city in Roman Egypt / Richard Alston -- 10. Trading gods in northern Italy / Mark Humphries -- 11. Ancient economies: models and muddles / John K. Davies
Notes A collection of papers from a 1995 conference with the same working title
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Cities and towns, Ancient -- History -- Congresses.
Cities and towns, Ancient -- History.
Commerce -- History -- To 500 -- Congresses.
Commerce -- History -- To 500.
Economic history -- To 500.
Economic history -- To 500 -- Congresses.
Trade routes -- History -- Congresses.
Trade routes -- History.
SUBJECT Assyria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82092936 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Assyria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82092936 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Greece http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046090 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Greece http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046090 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Rome http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039816 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Rome http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039816 -- Commerce http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001412 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Parkins, Helen, 1966-
Smith, Christopher John, 1965-
LC no. 97030850
ISBN 0415165172