Title: Premodern trade in world history /
Authors: Smith, Richard L. 1945-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Commerce History; International trade History
Abstract: Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavors.
Contents: Some introductory musings -- In the beginning -- The first link -- Land of gold -- Into the Aegean and out of the Bronze Age -- Of purple men and oil merchants -- Shifting cores and peripheries in the Imperial West -- When India was the center of the world -- Following the Periplus -- The all-water route -- From the Jade Road to the Silk Road -- The last link -- Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index.