Trading Communities in the Roman World

A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-23860-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 37, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition

Ancient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow transportation and by the absence of a state that helped traders enforce their contracts. In Trading Communities in the Roman World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective Taco Terpstra offers a new explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire overcame these difficulties.

Previous theories have focused heavily on dependent labor, arguing that transactions overseas were conducted through slaves and freedmen. Taco Terpstra shows that this approach is unsatisfactory. Employing economic theory, he convincingly argues that the key to understanding long-distance trade in the Roman Empire is not patron-client or master-slave relationships, but the social bonds between ethnic groups of foreign traders living overseas and the local communities they joined.

Zielgruppe

All interested in Roman long-distance trade, Roman law, ethnicity in the Roman world, and the archeology of Rome and Ostia, as well as economists interested in pre-industrial economic history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

T Terpstra, Taco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

T Terpstra, Taco
Taco Terpstra, Ph.D. (2011), Columbia University, specializes in Roman socio-economic history and classical archaeology. He has published articles on Roman long-distance trade and editions of Egyptian papyri, as well as articles resulting from his field work in ancient Stabiae.