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Record Nr.

UNINA9910917489603321

Autore

Henderson Julian

Titolo

Reimagining the Silk Roads : Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-04-027281-9

1-003-34870-X

1-04-027274-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

L. MorganStephen

SaloniaMatteo

Disciplina

950

Soggetti

Silk Road History

Eurasia Civilization

Eurasia Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.