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Life along the Silk Road / / Susan Whitfield



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Autore: Whitfield Susan <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Life along the Silk Road / / Susan Whitfield Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015]
©2015
Edizione: Second edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina: 950
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Asia / General
Soggetto geografico: Silk Road History
Silk Road Biography
Asia History
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Prologue: the shipmaster's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The soldier's tale -- The horseman's tale -- The princess's tale -- The courtesan's tale -- The pilgrim's tale -- The writer's tale -- The official's tale -- The nun's tale -- The widow's tale -- The artist's tale.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Life along the Silk Road  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96029-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788053703321
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