Table of Contents

List of Maps. Acknowledgements. Preface 1. Some Introductory Musings 2. In the Beginning 3. The First Link 4. Land of Gold 5. Into the Aegean and out of the Bronze Age 6. Of Purple Men and Oil Merchants 7. Shifting Cores and Peripheries in the Imperial West 8. When India was the Center of the World 9. Following the Periplus 10. The All-Water Route 11. From the Jade Road to the Silk Road 12. The Last Link. Epilogue. Bibliography

About the Author

Ferrum College, Virginia, USA