By Neville Morley

ISBN-10: 052163279X

ISBN-13: 9780521632799

ISBN-10: 0521634164

ISBN-13: 9780521634168

Historians have lengthy argued in regards to the position of exchange in classical antiquity: used to be it the life-blood of a posh, Mediterranean-wide economic climate, or a skinny veneer at the floor of an underdeveloped agrarian society? exchange underpinned the expansion of Athenian and Roman strength, assisting to provide armies and towns. It supplied the products that historical elites had to preserve their dominance - and but, those self same elites as a rule seemed exchange and investors as a hazard to social order. exchange, just like the styles of intake that decided its improvement, used to be implicated in wider debates approximately politics, morality and the country of society, simply because the enlargement of alternate within the smooth global is gifted either because the solution to international poverty and as an device of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This 2007 publication explores the character and significance of old exchange, contemplating its ecological and cultural value in addition to its fiscal aspects.

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