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Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires - Edited by Walter Scheidel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 240. 8 b/w illustrations. Hardback £45.00, ISBN : 978-0-19-533690-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2010

L. de Ligt
Affiliation:
Leiden University, The Netherlands E-mail: L.de.Ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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References

1 Cf. my remarks in ‘Taxes, trade, and the circulation of coin: the Roman empire, Mughal India and T’ang China compared’, Medieval History Journal, 6, 2, 2003, pp. 231–48.

2 Keith Hopkins, ‘Taxes and trade in the Roman empire, 200 B.C.–A.D. 400)’, Journal of Roman Studies, 70, 1980, pp. 101–25.

3 Duncan-Jones, Richard, Money and government in the Roman empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994CrossRefGoogle Scholar, p. 111.