Foreword -- The Silk Road, medieval globality, and 'everyday cosmopolitanism' -- The Silk Road as literary spacetime -- Techniques of worldmaking in medieval Armenia -- Making and unmaking the world of the Kasakh Valley -- Traveling through Armenia : caravan inns and the materia…
"Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its…
"Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its…
This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.
This book brings together perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in selected countries around the Indian Ocean rim that are linked by the historic and Arabian maritime trade routes. It explores how selected countries have adapted maritime archaeological…
This book brings together perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in selected countries around the Indian Ocean rim that are linked by the historic and Arabian maritime trade routes. It explores how selected countries have adapted maritime archaeological…
This book brings together perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in selected countries around the Indian Ocean rim that are linked by the historic and Arabian maritime trade routes. It explores how selected countries have adapted maritime archaeological…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Written by eminent international judges, scholars and practitioners, this book offers a timely study of China's role in international dispute resolution in the context of the construction of the 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI). It provides in-depth …
"In most of the time of its history of over 5,000 years, China was prosperous and influential in the Far East. The international order that it shaped in this region is unique in post- Westphalian terms, but not necessarily inferior. Despite the fact that it claimed to be the "Mi…
"In most of the time of its history of over 5,000 years, China was prosperous and influential in the Far East. The international order that it shaped in this region is unique in post- Westphalia terms, but not necessarily inferior. Despite the fact that it claimed to be the "Mid…
"In most of the time of its history of over 5,000 years, China was prosperous and influential in the Far East. The international order that it shaped in this region is unique in post- Westphalian terms, but not necessarily inferior. Despite the fact that it claimed to be the "Mi…
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans and the world's seas from the Arctic …
by Armitage, David, Bashford, Alison, Sivasundaram, Sujit
fromCambridge oceanic histories
"Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the B…
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Ba…
Introduction : writing world oceanic histories / Sujit Sivasundaram, Alison Bashford and David Armitage -- The Indian Ocean / Sujit Sivasundaram -- The Pacific Ocean / Alison Bashford -- The Atlantic Ocean / David Armitage -- The South China Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo -- The Mediter…
by Bashford, Alison, Sivasundaram, Sujit
fromCambridge oceanic histories
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Ba…