Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts

🔖📘 How contracts reveal the link between commerce and law in maritime societies:

'Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts' - a @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social‬ book on #ScienceOpen 📚

🖇️ #Classics #AncientEconomy #MaritimeTrade #LegalHistory

Trade and Globalization from the Silk Roads to Today For the first time in history, luxury products from China started to appear on the other edge of the Eurasian continent.

Globalization isn’t new.

Ancient empires were already outsourcing, importing, and getting rich.

Modern trade is just the remix.
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#Brewminate #Globalization #SilkRoads #TradeHistory #AncientEconomy

It's slightly jarring when reading *about* Karl Polanyi and his contribution to the study of the ancient economy to then discover - when finally reading Polanyi - that he gave just one (!!!) paragraph's worth of attention to the Greco-Roman economy #Classics #AncientEconomy