Premodern trade in world history / Richard L. Smith.
By: Smith, Richard L. (Richard Lee) [Author].
Material type: BookSeries: Themes in world history: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009Description: x, 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415424763 (hbk.); 9780415424769 (hbk.); 0415424771 (pbk.); 9780415424776 (pbk.); 0203893522 (ebk.); 9780203893524 (ebk.).Subject(s): Commerce -- History | International trade -- History | Commerce | International trade | Handel | WelthandelGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 382.09 Online resources: Table of contents | Table of contents KostenfreiItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavors.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-149) and index.
Some introductory musings -- In the beginning -- The first link -- Land of gold -- Into the Aegean and out of the Bronze Age -- Of purple men and oil merchants -- Shifting cores and peripheries in the Imperial West -- When India was the center of the world -- Following the Periplus -- The all-water route -- From the Jade Road to the Silk Road -- The last link -- Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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