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Zusatztext Supporting the outstanding technical material in The Romans and Trade is the excellent quality of the editing; the translation is a pleasure to read, and the typesetting and binding are of the highest calibre... It is an appropriate culmination of a superb career, accurately reflecting decades of insights into numerous facets of the Roman economy; it will be consulted by students of ancient trade and nautical archaeology alike, and it certainly belongs in the collections of individuals interested in this aspect of the Roman world. Informationen zum Autor André Tchernia graduated as Agrégé des Letters in 1960, and, after his National Service, was chosen as a member of the Ecole Française de Rome in 1963. He directed for three years an excavation in Bolsena, and specialized in the study of Roman amphorae. Back in France in 1966, he lectured in Latin at the University of Aix en Provence and became a pioneer in underwater archaeology, directing for ten years the excavation f the great Roman wreck of La Madrague de Giens. He obtained his "Doctorat d'Etat" in 1984, and published in 1986 'le vin de l'Italie romaine, essai d'histoire économique d'après les amphores'. In 1957, he was appointed deputy-director of the department of Human Sciences of the National Center for Scienntific Research. He left this post in 1990 to become "Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales", where he finished his carreer. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This is the first English translation of André Tchernia's latest work Les Romains et le commerce (Centre Jean Berard, 2012). It consists of two parts: the first is an introduction and five chapters giving a new synthesis of Roman commerce; the second is a collection of previously published articles, updated and revised. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: The Romans and Trade Introduction 1: Landowners and Traders 2: Traders' Fortunes 3: The Matter of the Market 4: The Role of the State 5: Dispatching what is Required PART II Scripta varia 6: Dreams of Wealth, Borrowing, and Seaborne Trade 7: The Sale of Wine 8: The plebiscitum Claudianum 9: The Crisis of AD 33 10: Staple Provisions for Rome: How to Quantify them? 11: Food Supplies for Rome: Coping with Geographical Constraints 12: Claudius's Edict and Ships of 10,000 modii 13: The Dromedary of the Peticii and Trade with the East 14: Winds and Coin: From the Supposed Discovery of the Monsoon to the Denarii of Tiberius 15: D. Caecilius Hospitalis and M. Iulius Hermesianus (CIL, VI, 1625b and 20742) 16: Delivery of Oil from Baetica to the Limes in Germania: Wierschowski Versus Remesal 17: Warehousing and Complementary Cargoes on the Alexandria Grain Run 18: Wine Exporting and the Exception of Gaul: Current Interpretations 19: The Economic Crisis in Imperial Italy and Competition from the Provinces ...
