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The Romans and trade / André Tchernia ; translated by James Grieve (with Elizabeth Minchin).
LIBRA HF377 .T3413 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tchernia, André, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies on the Roman economy
- Standardized Title:
- Romains et le commerce. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce.
- History.
- Rome--Commerce--History.
- Rome.
- Rome--Economic conditions.
- Rome (Empire).
- Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- [English edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "This book brings together André Tchernia's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it"--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I The Romans and Trade
- Introduction 3
- 1 Landowners and Traders 10
- Products of the Estate: A Broad Connotation 10
- The Landowner's Range of Activities 12
- The Separation between Production and Lang-Distance Trading 13
- Senators Engaged in the Export Business? 16
- Ideological Problems 21
- The Secrecy Theory 23
- Financing Trade and its Channels 27
- Conclusion 36
- 2 Traders' Fortunes 38
- Seneca and Cornelius Senecio 38
- Those who Are Trying to Make their Fortune Honourably, via Trade 39
- Between Puteoli and the Red Sea 42
- Painted Inscriptions on the Amphorae from Baetica 51
- Urban Fortunes 65
- Diversity- and Specificity 67
- 3 The Matter of the Market 72
- The Enormous Conglomeration of Interdependent Markets: A Red Herring 72
- Divergent Opinions 78
- Archaeological Evidence and its Interpretation 79
- Modes of Transport 79
- The Influence of Transaction Costs: Growing Inequality 93
- Paradoxes 95
- 4 The Role of the State 97
- Limits to State Participation 97
- Supplying the Army 98
- Side Effects of Food-Supply Policy 103
- Demography 111
- Conclusion 113
- 5 Meeting Needs 115
- Part II Scripta varia
- 6 Dreams of Wealth, Loans, and Seaborne Trade 131
- 7 The Sale of Wine 140
- The Point of View of the Producer 140
- The Point of View of the Buyer 147
- 8 The plebiscitum Claudianum 150
- The Prohibition on Owning Seagoing Vessels with a Capacity Greater than 300 Amphorae 152
- A Tonnage Deemed Sufficient for Transporting one's own Produce 155
- Quaestus and the Ordering of the Parts of the Preamble 155
- Evolution of the plebiscitum Claudianum: In Verrem and the lex Iulia de repetundis 156
- The Impossibliry of Tendering for Tax Grain Contracts 159
- The Senators' Anger 161
- Quaestus omnis patribus indecorus: The Third Century 162
- The Meanings of quaestus 165
- Talk and Actions 168
- Per incerta maris 170
- Recapitulation 172
- 9 The Crisis of AD 33 174
- Origins and Development 174
- Land Prices and Interest Rates 176
- The senatus consultum: Tacitus and Suetonius 177
- The Foreseeable Consequences and the Probable Objectives of the senatus consultum 179
- What Lessons are to be Drawn from the Crisis of AD 33? 183
- 10 Staple Provisions for Rome: Problems of Quantification 188
- Grain 188
- Oil 195
- Wine 196
- Conclusion 196
- 11 Food Supplies for Rome: Coping with Geographical Constraints 201
- The Roman Countryside and Long-Distance Supplies 201
- The Tiber 202
- The Seaports 206
- 12 Claudius' Edict and Ships of 10,000 modii 211
- 13 The Dromedary of the Peticii and Trade with the East 220
- 14 Winds and Coins: Trade between the Roman Empire and India 229
- Using the Monsoon 229
- Massive Outflow of Money? 238
- 15 D. Caecilius Hospitalis and M. Iulius Hermesianus (CIL VI. 1625b and 20742) / D. Caecilius Hospitalis Hospitalis, D. Caecilius 249
- Inscriptions on Amphorae from Monte Testaccio and on Stone 250
- M. Iulius Hermesianus in Rome 252
- Conclusion 252
- 16 Delivery of Oil from Baetica to the limes in Germania: Wierschowski versus Remesal 255
- 17 Warehousing and Complementary Cargoes on the Alexandria Grain Run 265
- The Murecine Tablets 265
- The Grain from Alexandria and the Lentils of C. Novius Eunus, a Trader at Puteoli 266
- Menelaus, a Carian Ship's Master, and Baetican Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean 269
- The Low Price of Cretan Wine in Rome 273
- Conclusion 275
- 18 Wine Exporting and the Exception of Gaul 277
- Transformation of Distribution Maps for the Early Second Century BC 277
- The Gauls and Wine during the Late La Tène Period 281
- Between Cato and Caesar, from Gold to Slaves 286
- Effects on Italian Wine-Growing Regions: Expansion and Colour 292
- Creation of a Specialized Merchandise 295
- 19 The Economic Crisis in Imperial Italy and Competition from the Provinces 297
- Italian Terra Sigillata Pottery 299
- Amphorae and Villas 301.
- Notes:
- "First Edition published in 2011 by Centre Jean Berard & Centre Camille Jullian"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-363) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0198723717
- 9780198723714
- OCLC:
- 962484062
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