Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce, credited to James William Gilbart, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce by James William Gilbart. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers "There are few in this room who have not attended [Gilbart's] excellent lectures on 'Ancient Commerce.' I feel what a train of agreeable and elevating associations I excite by merely mentioning their name. The judicious arrangement, the happy spirit of analysis, the discriminating selection and classification of facts, the wise deduction of principles, leading to views the noblest and loftiest, but at the same time the most practical and useful to society — all this, too, conveyed in language claiming the applause of the instructed, but not beyond the grasp of the ignorant — was not only a complete redemption of our original promises, but, I do think, the best practical illustration and most complete recommendation we could possibly offer of the pleasures and utilities of such institutions as this." -Summary by Thomas Wyse)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce
• Author credits: James William Gilbart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 6:02:12

Catalogue topics

• history
• commerce
• commerce -- history
• economics -- history
• commerce -- history -- ancient
• commerce -- history ancient
• carthage (extinct city) -- commerce -- history
• east indies -- commerce -- netherlands -- history

Track guide

1. 01 - The Commerce of Ancient Egypt Part 1 — 17:50
2. 02 - The Commerce of Ancient Egypt Part 2 — 21:51
3. 03 - The Commerce of Ancient Egypt Part 3 — 16:41
4. 04 - The Commerce of Ancient Greece Part 1 — 20:52
5. 05 - The Commerce of Ancient Greece Part 2 — 27:13
6. 06 - The Commerce of Ancient Greece Part 3 — 22:23
7. 07 - The Commerce of Tyre and Carthage Part 1 — 20:51
8. 08 - The Commerce of Tyre and Carthage Part 2 — 22:14
9. 09 - The Commerce of Tyre and Carthage Part 3 — 21:43
10. 10 - The Commerce of Tyre and Carthage Part 4 — 17:42
11. 11 - The Commerce of Ancient Rome Part 1 — 18:24
12. 12 - The Commerce of Ancient Rome Part 2 — 20:28
13. 13 - The Commerce of Ancient Rome Part 3 — 21:33
14. 14 - The Commerce of Ancient Rome Part 4 — 19:22
15. 15 - The Commerce of the Ancients with the East Indies Part 1 — 23:55
16. 16 - The Commerce of the Ancients with the East Indies Part 2 — 23:18
17. 17 - The Commerce of the Ancients with the East Indies Part 3 — 25:52

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