Across the Ocean Vol. 41
Subtitle: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789004289536
Subjects: Mediterranean region, history
Description: "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."--