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Seafaring and seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
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ISBN: 9088905568 9789088905568 908890555X 9789088905551 9789088905544 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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The Straits of Malacca
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ISBN: 0773525157 9786612860980 1282860984 077357087X 9780773570870 9781282860988 9780773525153 6612860987 Year: 2003 Publisher: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press

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Casting a broad net across several disciplines, particularly geography and political economy, Donald Freeman examines the significance of the Straits as both a trade gateway and a choke-point that has forced generations of sailors to "run the gauntlet." Rather than the more conventional historical-narrative approach, he offers an innovative adoption of an interdisciplinary, analytical perspective through his use of detailed case studies of trading systems and shipping hazards.


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Attraverso le Alpi e lungo il Po : importazione e distribuzione di sigillate galliche nella Cisalpina
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ISSN: 02235099 ISBN: 2728312559 2728312540 9782728312542 Year: 2018 Volume: 532 Publisher: Rome: École française de Rome,

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La presenza della sigillata gallica nella Transpadana occidentale è cosa nota da tempo, per lo meno agli studiosi locali, ma l’entità del fenomeno e il suo significato sul piano economico e delle relazioni commerciali sono ancora oggi molto poco evidenti a livello nazionale e internazionale. Il rinvenimento di un notevole quantitativo di sigillata gallica nello scavo di alcune porzioni di discarica addossate alle mura di cinta della Torino romana ha dato l’avvio a uno studio che mette in luce come la sigillata gallica nella Cisalpina non sia affatto una presenza sporadica, né probabilmente il risultato di un approvvigionamento destinato a soddisfare solo i bisogni dei ceti più abbienti, ma costituisca invece un indicatore economico piuttosto importante. Il volume prende in esame più di 500 frammenti, per lo più inediti, di sigillata prodotta nella Gallia meridionale e centrale tra l’età claudia e il III secolo, tutti rinvenuti nella Cisalpina occidentale, e passa in rassegna i dati editi per l’area nordorientale. Lo scopo principale, oltre a quello di far emergere la presenza non marginale di queste produzioni nel nord Italia, è la ricostruzione di una via cisalpina per il trasporto di merci diverse, molte delle quali deperibili, da ovest verso est. Fossili guida nella ricerca sono le ceramiche di Lezoux e Banassac, prodotti che non avevano una rete di distribuzione mediterranea, ma si concentravano nell’Europa continentale e in Britannia. Definire i loro itinerari permette di ipotizzare dinamiche commerciali sulle lunghe distanze, in un mercato che non aveva le caratteristiche e i numeri di quello Urbano o di quello militare, e di assegnare alla Gallia Cisalpina un ruolo di qualche importanza come via meridionale di transito e di connessione tra l’area transalpina occidentale e quella orientale.


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On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa
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ISBN: 9781107611788 9780521887243 0521887240 9780511575457 1107611784 1107200830 1282103679 9786612103674 0511575459 051151509X 0511517726 0511514182 0511516371 9780511517723 0511517238 9780511517235 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, Professor Lydon shows how traders used their literacy skills in Arabic and how they had recourse to experts of Islamic law to regulate their long-distance transactions. The book also examines the strategies devised by women to participate in caravan trade. By embracing a continental approach, this study bridges the divide between West African and North African studies. The work will be of interest to historians of Africa, the Middle East, and the world and to scholars of long-distance trade, Muslim societies and Islamic law.


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Les Arméniens dans le commerce asiatique au début de l'ère moderne = Armenians in Asian trade in the early modern era
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ISBN: 2735118487 2735113663 2735112047 9782735112043 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme,

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La poussée de la navigation occidentale au-delà du cap de Bonne Espérance et l'activité connue des diverses compagnies des Indes sont les références habituelles auxquelles renvoie le commerce de l'Asie entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle. Les Européens ont pourtant rencontré sur les routes de l'Asie, maritimes ou continentales, des communautés marchandes bien établies qui, au gré des circonstances et avant la colonisation, ont été aussi bien leurs concurrents que leurs partenaires. Les Arméniens, déjà présents en Europe, sont l'une d'elles ; le principal réseau commercial qui les représente à partir du XVIIe siècle est celui de la Nouvelle-Djoulfa, un faubourg arménien fondé près d'Isfahan après la déportation de l'Arménie du Centre-Est par le chah de Perse Abbas Ier en 1604-1605. En se déployant d'Amsterdam au Bengale et au Tibet, et jusqu'aux îles Philippines, en prenant appui sur toute une série de ports et d'étapes répartis des rives de la Baltique ou de la Méditerranée à celles de l'océan Indien ou de la mer de Chine, le réseau commercial formé par les Arméniens de la Nouvelle-Djoulfa a de quoi susciter la curiosité, sinon la passion de l'historien. Il n'a pas manqué de surprendre aussi les contemporains : de la Nouvelle-Djoulfa, dont il découvre le faste grandissant, le chevalier de Chardin dira qu'il est peut-être le plus gros bourg du monde ; Gabriel de Chinon y verra, lui, une petite république. Pourvoyeurs d'épices, de tissus, de soie, des produits les plus variés des Indes ou de l'Europe, les marchands arméniens sont aussi les financiers du chah de Perse, les ambassadeurs de l'empereur d'Éthiopie; ils deviennent armateurs dans l'océan Indien, maîtrisent les techniques comptables et commerciales en usage en Orient ou en Occident, négocient avec les souverains ou les compagnies. Ils tentent également, alors que se construit le monde moderne, d'y faire une place à leur nation, à la fois ancrée dans un pays partagé et déterritorialisée. Dans la lignée de…


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The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road
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ISSN: 15667162 ISBN: 9789004171657 9004171657 9786612400476 1282400479 9047424972 9789047424970 9781282400474 6612400471 Year: 2008 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road.Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Trade, traders and the ancient city
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ISBN: 9780415518925 041551892X 0415165172 1134709420 1280143347 0203979036 9780203979037 9780415165174 661014334X 9786610143344 9781134709427 9781280143342 9781134709373 9781134709410 1134709412 Year: 1998 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy.Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

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Commerce --- Cities and towns, Ancient. --- Economic history --- History --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- Routes commerciales --- Villes antiques --- Assyria --- Assyrie --- Cities and towns, Ancient - History - Congresses. --- Commerce - History - To 500 - Congresses. --- Trade routes. --- Trade routes - History - Congresses. --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- Trade routes --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Trade --- Business --- Transportation --- Geography, Ancient --- History&delete& --- Congresses --- Greece --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Congresses. --- Histoire économique --- Histoire --- Congrès --- To 500 --- Cities and towns [Ancient ] --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Commerce - History - To 500 - Congresses --- Trade routes - History - Congresses --- Cities and towns, Ancient - History - Congresses --- Assyria - Commerce - History - Congresses --- Rome - Commerce - History - Congresses --- Greece - Commerce - History - Congresses

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