Reconfiguring the Silk Road : New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity /

From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hickman, Jane (Editor ), Mair, Victor H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
East and West > Congresses.
Trade routes > Asia, Central > History > Congresses.
Silk Road > History > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : the Silk Roads before silk / Colin Renfrew
  • Introduction : reconceptualizing the Silk Roads / Victor H. Muir
  • At the limits : long-distance trade in the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kings / J.G. Manning
  • The Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown
  • The northern cemetery : epigone or progenitor of Small River Cemetery no. 5 / Victor H. Muir
  • More light on the Xinjiang textiles / Elizabeth Wayland Barber
  • Seeds for the soul : ideology and diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia / Michael D. Frachetti
  • Horseback riding and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown
  • Indo-European dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe / J.P. Mallory
  • Concluding comments : reconfiguring the Silk Road, or when does the Silk Road emerge and how does it qualitatively change over time? / Philip L. Kohl
  • Index.

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