Everyday cosmopolitanisms : living the Silk Road in medieval Armenia /

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"Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Franklin, Kathryn J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
428-1522
Trade routes > Caucasus > History.
Routes commerciales > Caucase > Histoire.
HISTORY / World.
Trade routes
Travel
Silk Road > Description and travel > History.
Silk Road > History, Local.
Armenia > History > 428-1522.
Silk Road > Description and travel.
Route de la soie > Descriptions et voyages.
Route de la soie > Histoire locale.
Arménie > Histoire > 428-1522.
Armenia
Asia > Silk Road
Caucasus
Electronic books.
History
Local history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Silk Road, medieval globality, and 'everyday cosmopolitanism'
  • The Silk Road as literary spacetime
  • Techniques of worldmaking in medieval Armenia
  • Making and unmaking the world of the Kasakh Valley
  • Traveling through Armenia : caravan inns and the material experience of Silk Road travel
  • The world in a bowl : intimate and delicious everyday spacetimes on the Silk Road
  • Everyday cosmopolitanisms : rewriting the shape of the Silk Road world.

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