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160202s2016 ii ab b 001 0 eng d |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199460854 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
019946085X |
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| Language |
English |
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| Classification number |
382.093 |
| Edition number |
23 |
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RAJ |
| 100 0# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rajan, Gurukkal |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Rethinking classical Indo-Roman trade : |
| Remainder of title |
political economy of eastern Mediterranean exchange relations / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Rajan Gurukkal. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi, India : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 330 pages : |
| Other physical details |
1 illustration (black and white), maps (black and white) ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
1. Introduction: Theoretical Preliminaries and methodology |
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2. Sources and Historiography |
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3. Eastern mediterranean overseas exchanges |
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4. Ports, marts, and ship technology in early south India |
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5. Exhange relations in early peninsular India |
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6. Polity, statecraft, and overseas exchange |
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7. Afterword |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The book is a critical rethinking of the nature of the classical eastern Mediterranean exchange relations with the coasts of the Indian subcontinent. It examines in the light of the extant source material and theoretical insights whether the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is tenable. Characterizing the nature of contemporary exchanges in detail, the book maintains that the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is inappropriate. It starts off with the theoretical premise that the term ‘trade’, if applied uniformly to all kinds of transactions in time and place, will lead to many anachronistic correlations, causations, and generalizations about the nature of early forms of exchange. Contemporary Mediterranean exchange of goods from the eastern world was a combination of multiple forms of exchange in which trade was just one and confined to Rome. The management of this ensemble was a heavily collaborative, extensively networked, and document-based enterprise, with precise notions of weights, measures, rates of rent, interest, price and profit accounted in terms of money. It had necessitated a stratified society, aristocracy, state system, and the entailing political economy of demand for luxury goods from far-off lands. Considering that such institutional and social structures were absent in contemporaneous peninsular India, this book dismisses the claims in south Indian historiography that early Tamil chieftains conducted overseas commerce. Neither there existed adequate naval technology to allow merchant bodies to conduct independent overseas trade nor was it necessary. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Commerce. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Diplomatic relations |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Commerce--Historiography |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
General Books |
| 100 0# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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author. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-316) and index. |
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| Geographic name |
India |
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Commerce |
| Geographic subdivision |
Rome. |
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| Geographic name |
Rome |
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Commerce |
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India. |
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India |
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Commerce |
| Geographic subdivision |
Middle East. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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Middle East |
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Commerce |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
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