Across the ocean : : nine essays on Indo-Mediterranean trade / / edited by Federico De Romanis and Marco Maiuro ; cover illustration, Codice Magliabechiano.

• Superior document: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Volume 41
• Author: Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.) (Conference) Columbia University)
• TeilnehmendeR: De Romanis, Federico,; Maiuro, Marco,; Magliabechiano, Codice,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; Volume 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps, tables, graphs, charts.
• Notes: "This volume is a collection of papers delivered at the conference "A Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce (I-XVII c.)," held at the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, March 4th-5th, 2011"--Acknowledgment.

Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan’s Canal, the pepper trade, the pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in ancient India, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean ports of trade, and the rise and demise of the VOC.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Federico De Romanis and Marco Maiuro -- 1 Red Sea Trade and the State / Andrew Wilson -- 2 Trajan’s Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea? / Jean-Jacques Aubert -- 3 Pearls, Power, and Profit: Mercantile Networks and Economic Considerations of the Pearl Trade in the Roman Empire / Katia Schörle -- 4 Roman Policy on the Red Sea in the Second Century ce / Dario Nappo -- 5 Roman Trade with the Far East: Evidence for Nabataean Middlemen in Puteoli / Taco Terpstra -- 6 Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the Millennia / Harry Falk -- 7 ‘Regions that Look Seaward’: Changing Fortunes, Submerged Histories, and the Slow Capitalism of the Sea / Jairus Banaji -- 8 Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade / Federico De Romanis -- 9 Into the East: European Merchants in Asian Markets During the Early Modern Period / Martha Howell -- Afterword / Elio Lo Cascio -- References -- Index of Sources -- General Index.