Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 November 2017
- ISBN 9780198790662
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages680 pages
- Size 242x162x41 mm
- Weight 1312 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 94 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
In this volume, papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discuss trade within the Roman Empire and beyond its frontiers between c.100 BC and AD 350, and the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework for trade. Documentary, historical, and archaeological evidence forms the basis of a novel interdisciplinary approach.
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This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within and outside the empire, in taxing that trade, and in intervening in the markets to ensure the supply of particular commodities, especially for the city of Rome and for the army.
As part of a novel interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the chapters address its myriad facets on the basis of broadly different sources of evidence: historical, papyrological, and archaeological. They are grouped into three sections, covering institutional factors (taxation, legal structures, market regulation, financial institutions); evidence for long-distance trade within the empire in wood, stone, glass, and pottery; and trade beyond the frontiers, with the east (as far as China), India, Arabia, the Red Sea, and the Sahara. Rome's external trade with realms to the east emerges as being of particular significance, but it is in the eastern part of the empire itself where the state appears to have adapted the mechanisms of taxation in collaboration with the elite holders of wealth to support its need for revenue. On the other hand, the price of that collaboration, which was in effect a fiscal partnership, ultimately led in the longer term in slightly different forms in the east and the west to a fundamental change in the political character of the empire.
Like its predecessors from OxREP, this volume contains a wealth of valuable interventions in debates about the Roman economy. The synthesis of recently discovered or compiled archaeological material, often by scholars responsible for its initial production, makes this book invaluable to economic historians. The inclusion of materials that are usually marginalized and the insistence on the importance of extra-imperial trade are themselves important steps forward as well. Any collection of scholarship on the Roman economy should contain this book.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Trade, Commerce, and the State
I. Institutions and the State
The State and the Economy: Fiscality and Taxation
Law, Commerce, and Finance in the Roman Empire
Market Regulation and Transaction Costs in the Roman Empire
Financial Institutions and Structures in the Last Century of the Roman Republic
Nile River Transport under the Romans
II. Trade within the Empire
The Indispensable Commodity: Notes on the Economy of Wood in the Roman Mediterranean
Stone-Use and the Economy: Demand, Distribution, and the State
An Overview of the Circulation of Glass in Antiquity
Procurators' Business? Gallo-Roman Sigillata in Britain in the Second and Third Centuries AD
The Distribution of African Pottery under the Roman Empire: Evidence vs Interpretation
The Supply Networks of the Roman East and West: Interaction, Fragmentation, and the Origins of the Byzantine Economy
Prices and Costs in the Textile Industry in the Light of the Lead Tags from Siscia
Exports and Imports in Mauretania Tingitana: The Evidence from Thamusida
III. Trade beyond the Frontiers
The Silk Road between Syria and China
Egypt and Eastern Commerce during the Second Century AD and Later
Money and Flows of Coinage in the Red Sea Trade
The Port of Qana', a Junction between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea: The Underwater Evidence
Trade across Rome's Southern Frontier: The Sahara and the Garamantes
Endmatter
Index
