Scales of fate : trade, tradition, and transformation in the eastern Mediterranean ca. 1350 - 1175 BCE

1. Verfasser: Monroe, Christopher Mountfort, 1963-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2009.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 364 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Alter Orient und Altes Testament ; Bd. 357
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Historical setting
  • The technology of long-distance trade
  • Finance, conduct, and literacy
  • Relations between traders and rulers
  • Familial and ethnic relationships
  • Production, class, and the entrepreneurial sphere
  • Trade, tradition, and transformation.