Brill Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade: 41 (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 41)

Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade and the Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of the Trajans canal, the pepper and pearl trade, the Nabataean middlemen, the use of gold in India as recorded in the Sanskrit texts, the constant renewal of the Indian Ocean port of trade, the rise and demise of the VOC.