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Silk roads : from local realities to global narratives /
"In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject, the field has moved out of the narrow n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Havertown, PA :
Oxbow Books,
[2020].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The 'birth' of the silk road between ecological frontiers and military innovation / Nicola Di Cosmo
- Sogdians in Shanxi (386 CE-618 CE): literary and archaeological evidence / Xiaoyan Qi
- From exotic toys to objects of scientific inquiry: a special way of transmitting European optical knowledge in the Qing dynasty / Yunli Shi
- The Karakorum highway: gateway of empires, religions, and commerce / Saba Samee
- A TRP along the silk roads: how and why we detect and use spices / Wayne L. Silver and Cecil J. Saunders
- Silk road pharmacy: debating Theriac and defining the natural world / Monique O'Connell
- Spice and taste in the culinary world of the early modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteler
- Devotional prints and practice: woodcuts from the library cave at Dunhuang / Bernadine Barnes
- Dome of heaven: from the lantern ceiling to the Chinese wooden dome / Di Luo
- 'Malacca': from fabled port to muddy lagoon: a cautionary tale of ecological disaster / Margaret Sarkissian
- 21st-century trading routes in Mongolia: changing pastoral soundscapes and lifeways / Jennifer C. Post
- Erasing the local, celebrating the local: tracing the contradictions of the silk road in Pakistan / Chad Haines
- Arsacid economic activity on the silk road / Touraj Daryaee
- Pearls and power: Chōla's tribute mission to the northern song court within the maritime silk road trade network / James A. Anderson
- 'Flying cash': credit instruments on the silk roads / Dan Du
- The case for shipwrecked Indians in Germany / Jeffrey D. Lerner
- Samuel Shaw's 'maritime silk road' from American independence towards monopoly, 1784-1794 / John A. Ruddiman