Trade in the ancient Mediterranean : private order and public institutions / Taco Terpstra.

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 Mediterra...

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Uniform Title:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Main Author: Terpstra, Taco T. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Physical Description:viii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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