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Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
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This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians
and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the
period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the
Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within
and outside the empire, in taxing that trade, and in intervening in
the markets to ensure the supply of particular commodities,
especially for the city of Rome and for the army. As part of a
novel interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the chapters
address its myriad facets on the basis of broadly different sources
of evidence: historical, papyrological, and archaeological. They
are grouped into three sections, covering institutional factors
(taxation, legal structures, market regulation, financial
institutions); evidence for long-distance trade within the empire
in wood, stone, glass, and pottery; and trade beyond the frontiers,
with the east (as far as China), India, Arabia, the Red Sea, and
the Sahara. Rome's external trade with realms to the east emerges
as being of particular significance, but it is in the eastern part
of the empire itself where the state appears to have adapted the
mechanisms of taxation in collaboration with the elite holders of
wealth to support its need for revenue. On the other hand, the
price of that collaboration, which was in effect a fiscal
partnership, ultimately led in the longer term in slightly
different forms in the east and the west to a fundamental change in
the political character of the empire.
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