Reimagining the Silk Roads : Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Julian.

Contributor:

L. Morgan, Stephen.

Salonia, Matteo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Silk Road--History.

Silk Road.

Eurasia--Civilization.

Eurasia.

Eurasia--Commerce--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Reimagining the 'Silk Roads' : an introduction / Julian Henderson, Stephen L. Morgan and Matteo Salonia

Climates of the Silk Road through the common era / Matt Jones

Ecological variability and early agriculture along the proto-Silk Roads / Tengwen Long

Diseases and the medieval Silk Roads / Chris King

Roman palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce : material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence / Andreas Kopp

Abbasid Caliphate and Tang Dynasty in the ninth and tenth centuries : trade, acculturation, and transformation / Julian Henderson

Natron glass and the silk roads in the first millennium BCE / Qin-Qin Lü

A 'lion' on the Silk Road / Gilberto Artioli et al.

Buddhist missionaries at medieval Chinese courts : state ideologists and soul savers / Junqing Wu

The Sogdians, the 'cultural bees' of Eurasia / Pin Lyu

Huns and Romans in the fourth century / George Woudhuysen

Christianity on the Silk Roads / Teng Li

Dzhankent (Kazakhstan) - an early medieval trading node on the northern Silk Road / Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Haerke

Replacing the Silk Road? Central Asian merchants between China and Scandinavia, 840-1000 CE / Marek Jankowiak

Slavery and human trafficking along the medieval Silk Roads, c. 800 to c.1350 / Claire Taylor

Mapping Knowledge about the Eurasian Silk Roads in the fifteenth century / Georg Schindler

The Silk Road in Northeast Asia : courtly gift-giving, 668-1449 / James Fujitani

Iberian Silk Roads : spices, silver and souls / Matteo Salonia

Southeast Asia, China, and the 'maritime silk roads', c.900-1650 / Stephen L. Morgan

The birth of Silk Road studies in China : Hedin, Andersson and Sino-Swedish collaboration in Republican China / Jan Romgard

The Belt and Road Initiative at ten (2013-2023) : a crucial juncture for China's infrastructure geopolitics / Benjamin Barton

The road which binds : the BRI, nationalism, and the securitization of Xinjiang / David O'Brien, Melissa Shani Brown

Visualising the Silk Roads / Julian Henderson, Stephen L. Morgan and Matteo Salonia

Conclusion : questioning and recovering the Silk Roads / Matteo Salonia, Stephen L. Morgan and Julian Henderson.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

1-04-027281-9

1-003-34870-X

1-04-027274-6

9781003348702

OCLC:

1450833498

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781003348702