Now Published: Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World

A new book in the Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy series has been published: Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World.

This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within and outside the empire, in taxing that trade, and in intervening in the markets to ensure the supply of particular commodities, especially for the city of Rome and for the army.