Traders and trade routes of Central and Inner Asia : the "Silk Road" then and now : papers presented at the Central and Inner Asia Seminar, University of Toronto, 13-14 May 2005 / edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag, Gillian Long.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gervers, Michael, 1942-

Bulag, Uradyn E. (Uradyn Erden), 1964-

Long, Gillian.

University of Toronto. Asian Institute.

Conference Name:

Central and Inner Asian Seminar (2005 : University of Toronto)

Series:

Toronto studies in Central and Inner Asia ; no. 8.

Toronto studies in Central and Inner Asia ; no. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce.

History.

Asia, Central--History--Congresses.

Asia, Central.

Silk Road--History--Congresses.

Silk Road.

Asia, Central--Commerce--Congresses.

Central Asia.

Asia--Silk Road.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I. History and Religion of Early Traders and Trading. "Hungry for Han Goods": Zhang Qian and the Origins of the Silk Roads / Craig Benjamin

Peddling Islam: The Merchant in Early Conversion Narratives of the Central Asian Turks / Patrick A. Hatcher

Samarkand: How the Trade Routes Became the Urban Stage of Power / Domenico Catania and Claudio Rubini

The Traders of Inner Eurasia: Volga Bulgaria in Eurasian Trade, 9th-14th Centuries / Mikhail Zeldovich

Mongols, Barbarians, and the Great Suzerain: The Shifting Nomenclature of the Mongols during the Early Koryo-Mongol Relations in the 13th Century / Miji Lee

Indian Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Bukhara: Trade Network and Socio-Cultural Role / M.S. Kalandarova

Bukharan Traders and Entrepreneurs in the Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries and their Links with Russia / Audrey Burton

Continuity and Change in the Trade of Xinjiang into the 1920s / Daniel C. Waugh. II. Anthropology and Geography. Ancient Populations of Mongolia / Tumen Dashtseveg

Trading Dance for Identity: The Mongolian Dance, Andai / Cathy Kmita and Marguerite Garner

Mediators in the Transnational Marketplace: Wholesalers of Tibetan Ceremonial Scarves and the Marketing of Meaning / Christina Harris

The Back of Beyond: Trade, Geography and Central Asia's Predicament / Levent Hekimoglu

Trade and the Role ofa New Silk Road for Traders in Central Asia: The Iranian Case / Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi. III. Economics and Trade. New Ways of Revitalizing Trade Routes and the Economy in Uzbekistan / Faridun Odilov

Economic Reform in Authoritarian Uzbekistan / Martin C. Spechler

New Trade Routes and New Traders of Energy Resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Region / Pinar Ipek

Mongolian and Tuvan Aid to Wartime Russia / Denys J. Voaden. IV. Education. Teaching and Trading: Local Voices and Global Issues from Central Asia / Sarfaroz Niyozov and Duishon Shamatov

Public Policies in the Higher Education of Kazakhstan / Almaz Tolymbek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Central and Inner Asia Seminar (2005 : University of Toronto). Traders and trade routes of Central and Inner Asia.

ISBN:

9780772776020

0772776024

OCLC:

163575615