Banking and business in the Roman world / Jean Andreau ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

By:

Andreau, Jean

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Key themes in ancient historyPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: xvii, 176 p. : 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:

0521380316
0521389321 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Vie financière dans le monde romain. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

336.37

Summary: "In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators - starting with Caesar and Crassus - was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers, the famous publicani, were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the empire. Until now no book has presented a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life as a whole, from the time of the appearance of the first bankers' shops in the Forum between 318 and 310 BC down to the end of the Principate in AD 284. Professor Andreau writes of the business deals of the elite and the professional banker and also of the interventions of the state. To what extent did the spirit of profit and enterprise predominate over the traditional values of the city of Rome? And what economic role did these financiers play? How should we compare that role to that of their counterparts in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period?"--Provided by the publisher.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 2 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	336.37 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000008930

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171) and index.

"In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators - starting with Caesar and Crassus - was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers, the famous publicani, were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the empire. Until now no book has presented a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life as a whole, from the time of the appearance of the first bankers' shops in the Forum between 318 and 310 BC down to the end of the Principate in AD 284. Professor Andreau writes of the business deals of the elite and the professional banker and also of the interventions of the state. To what extent did the spirit of profit and enterprise predominate over the traditional values of the city of Rome? And what economic role did these financiers play? How should we compare that role to that of their counterparts in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period?"--Provided by the publisher.