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Social sciences (general) --- Bronze age --- Asia, Central --- Silk Road --- Antiquities.

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"Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of conquerors swiftly rode on horseback. In reality the region is highly fragmented and difficult to traverse, and overcoming these obstacles led to routes becoming associated with epic travel and high-value trade. Put simply, the inhabitants of these lands became experts in the art of travelling the margins. This volume seeks to unravel some of the myths of long-distance roads in Central Asia, using a desert case-study to put forward a new hypothesis for how medieval landscapes were controlled and manipulated"--

Travel, Medieval. --- Deserts --- Kara Kum (Turkmenistan) --- Kara Kum (Turkmenistan) --- Silk Road --- Silk Road --- Description and travel. --- Antiquities. --- Description and travel. --- History.

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"Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a "book," and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies. Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy"--

Commerce --- Cultural relations --- Geopolitics --- Trade routes --- History --- History. --- Silk Road --- Civilization.

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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 on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond.

Trade routes --- East and West --- Routes commerciales --- Orient et Occident --- History --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Silk Road --- Silk road --- Asia --- Route de la soie --- Asie --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Congrès --- Antiquités --- Congresses.

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"In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining"--Provided by publisher.

History of civilization --- History of Asia --- anno 700-799 --- anno 800-899 --- anno 900-999 --- african shipmaster. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- arab caliphate. --- biography. --- central asian tracks. --- chronology. --- context. --- cultural history. --- geography. --- global trade. --- globalism. --- indian ocean. --- maritime link. --- north-south route. --- persian traveler writer. --- portrait of life. --- pre-modern trade routes of eurasia. --- professors. --- remnants of silk road. --- silk road. --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Silk Road --- Asia --- Silk Route --- History. --- Geschichte. --- Route de la soie --- Asie --- Seidenstra�e. --- Histoire.