UID:
edocfu_9961152547402883
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78925-473-6
,
1-78925-471-X
Note:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction : Jeffrey D. Lerner and Yaohua Shi -- Section One: Acculturation and Hybridization -- 1. The 'Birth' of the Silk Road Between Ecological Frontiers and Military Innovation : Nicola Di Cosmo -- 2. Sogdians in Shanxi (386 CE-618 CE): Literary and Archeological Evidence : Xiaoyan Qi -- 3. From Exotic Toys to Objects of Scientific Inquiry: A Special Way of Transmitting European Optical Knowledge in the Qing Dynasty : Yunli Shi -- 4. The Karakorum Highway: Gateway of Empires, Religions, and Commerce : Saba Samee -- Section Two: Understanding Spice Through Interdisciplinarity -- 5. A TRP Along the Silk Roads: How and Why We Detect and Use Spices : Wayne L. Silver and Cecil J. Saunders -- 6. Silk Road Pharmacy: Debating Theriac and Defining the Natural World : Monique O'Connell -- 7. Spice and Taste in the Culinary World of the Early Modern Mediterranean : Eric Dursteler -- Section Three: Tradition as Continuity and Change -- 8. Devotional Prints and Practice: Woodcuts from the Library Cave at Dunhuang : Bernadine Barnes -- 9. Dome of Heaven: From the Lantern Ceiling to the Chinese Wooden Dome : Di Luo -- 10. 'Malacca' - From Fabled Port to Muddy Lagoon: A Cautionary Tale of Ecological Disaster : Margaret Sarkissian -- 11. 21st-century Trading Routes in Mongolia: Changing Pastoral Soundscapes and Lifeways : Jennifer C. Post -- 12. Erasing the Local, Celebrating the Local: Tracing the Contradictions of the Silk Road in Pakistan : Chad Haines -- Section Four: Cultural Transactions -- 13. Arsacid Economic Activity on the Silk Road : Touraj Daryaee -- 14. Pearls and Power: Chōla's Tribute Mission to the Northern Song Court within the Maritime Silk Road Trade Network : James A. Anderson.
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15. 'Flying Cash': Credit Instruments on the Silk Roads : Dan Du -- Section Five: Long-Distance Commodity Trade -- 16. The Case for Shipwrecked Indians in Germany : Jeffrey D. Lerner -- 17. Samuel Shaw's 'Maritime Silk Road' from American Independence towards Monopoly, 1784-1794 : John A. Ruddiman.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78925-470-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
