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Maritime technology in the ancient economy : ship-design and navigation
- Title
- Maritime technology in the ancient economy : ship-design and navigation / edited by W.V. Harris and K. Iara ; with contributions by P. Arnaud [and others].
- Publication
- Portsmouth, R.I. : Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2011.
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- Description
- 264 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Journal of Roman archaeology Supplementary series, 1063-4304 ; no. 84
- Uniform Title
- Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series ; no. 84.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Före 1500
- Shipbuilding > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500
- Navigation > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500
- Shipping > Economic aspects > History > Mediterranean Region > To 1500
- Commerce
- Navigation
- Shipbuilding
- Shipping > Economic aspects
- Antike
- Schiffbau
- Schifffahrt
- Schiffbau
- Schifffahrt
- Navigation
- Handel
- Skeppsbyggeri
- Sjöfart > ekonomiska aspekter > historia
- Antike
- Mediterranean Region > Commerce > History
- Mediterranean Region
- Römisches Reich
- Griechenland Altertum
- Mittelmeer
- Rom <2006>
- Römisches Reich
- Griechenland <Altertum>
- Maritime technology
- Ancient economy
- Ship design
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Revised papers from a conference held at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' on June 16-17, 2009.
- "Our specific claim in assembling this collection of papers has been to answer the question ... whether advances in either ship-construction or navigation are likely to have lowered the costs of maritime trade at any time during the longue durée of the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean"--P. [9].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and index.
- Language (note)
- English, French, and Italian.
- Contents
- A comparative perspective on the determinants of scale and productivity of Roman maritime trade in the Mediterranean / W. Scheidel -- Les conséquences de l'évolution des techniques de construction navale sur l'économie maritime antique : quelques exemples / P. Pomey -- Osservazioni riguardanti alcune innovazaioni in ambito navale di epoca classica : pregi e difetti / P. Dell'Amico - L'útilisation des gros tonnages / A. Tchernia -- Efficiency or economics? Sail development in the ancient Mediterranean / J. Whitewright -- Tra il fiume e il mare : le caudicariae di Fiumicino / G. Boetto -- Sulle origini della carpenteria moderna / S. Martino -- Greco-Roman meteorology and navigation / L. Taub -- Sailing 90̊ from the wind : norm or exception? / P. Arnaud -- Il carattere portolanico dello Stadiasmo o Perioplo del Mare Grande / S. Medas -- Snails, wine and winter navigation / A. Marzano -- No easy option : Nile versus Red Sea in ancient and mediaeval north-south navigation / J.P. Cooper -- The economic influences of developments in maritime technology in antiquity / A. Wilson.
- ISBN
- 9781887829847
- 1887829849
- LCCN
- 2012374440
- OCLC
- ocn742511757
- 742511757
- SCSB-1607964
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library