Introduction / John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV -- The extramercantile economy : an assessment of the new institutional economics : paradigm in relation to recent studies of ancient Greece and Rome / Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander -- Early Greek...

"This collection takes a multi-perspective approach in the study of empire and commodities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries. From early modern Venetian trade to tea in the Eurasian world, the role of gold in Portuguese imperial ambitions and British sailors as traders, Across Colonial...