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This book brings together scholars from many disciplines to shed light on the long history of the Silk Roads, to redefine it, and to demonstrate its vitality and importance.

Silk Road --- Eurasia --- History. --- Civilization. --- Commerce

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The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies offers in three volumes the first comprehensive discussion of economic development in the empires of the Afro-Eurasian world region to elucidate the conditions under which large quantities of goods and people moved across continents and between empires. Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange analyzes frontier zones as particular landscapes of encounter, economic development, and transimperial network formation. The chapters offer problematizing approaches to frontier zone processes as part of and in between empires, with the goal of better understanding how and why goods and resources moved across the Afro-Eurasian region. Key frontiers in mountains and steppes, along coasts, rivers, and deserts are investigated in depth, demonstrating how local landscapes, politics, and pathways explain network practices and participation in long-distance trade. The chapters seek to retrieve local knowledge ignored in popular Silk Road models and to show the potential of frontier-zone research for understanding the Afro-Eurasian region as a connected space.

Ancient economic history. --- Indian Ocean. --- Silk Road. --- global trade.

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The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west, the Han Empire extended its dominion over the oases around the Takla Makan Desert and sent silk all

Asia, Central - Civilization. --- Asia, Central - History. --- Cultural relations. --- Eurasia - Commerce - History. --- Silk Road - Civilization. --- Silk Road - History. --- Trade routes - Eurasia - History. --- Trade routes --- Cultural relations --- History --- History. --- Silk Road --- Eurasia --- Civilization. --- Commerce

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This book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE.

Chinese poetry. --- Poesie chinoise --- Chinese poetry --- Yongwu fu, exotica, Silk Roads, material culture, cultural exchange, third century. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Silk Road --- History. --- Silk Road. --- Fu --- Exoticism in literature.

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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 their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia-and the Silk Road itself-consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia's mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian.

Trade routes --- History --- Silk Road --- Armenia --- Description and travel --- History, Local --- Trade routes - Caucasus - History --- Silk Road - Description and travel - History --- Silk Road - History, Local --- Armenia - History - 428-1522 --- History / Europe / Medieval --- History / World --- History / Asia / Central Asia --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History. --- History, Local. --- Silk Route