Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia

Synopsis

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.Reimagining the Silk Roads illuminates economic, spiritual, and political networks, bridging different chronologies and geographies. Richly illustrated, it explores fascinating topics, including archaeological discoveries, oceanic explorations, the movement, and impact of ideas, and the ways in which the silk roads, broadly defined, contributed to processes of globalization. Reconciling the study of land and sea routes, and paying attention to themes such as material culture, environment, trade, and the role of religious faiths, the authors offer complex yet accessible studies of the history of interactions and perceptions across Eurasia over the last 3,000 years. The editors critically respond to the recent politicisation of the silk roads and reflect on their polycentric character.The book challenges and revives silk roads studies, and it will be relevant not only to researchers in archaeology, history, heritage and related fields, but also to the general reader.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040272817

Related ISBNs:

9781032391311, 9781003348702, 9781040272749

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

12/17/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Julian Henderson, Stephen L. Morgan, and Matteo Salonia

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Julian Henderson

Edited by:

Stephen L. Morgan

Edited by:

Matteo Salonia