Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions

by Taco Terpstra

How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions

From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean would ever know, the Roman Empire. Subsequent economic decline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691172080
• ISBN13: 9780691172088
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"