List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Environment, empires and ecumenes
Chapter 2: Eras of silk road fluorescence
Chapter 3: The biological silk road
Chapter 4: The technological silk road
Chapter 5: The arts on the silk road
Chapter 6: Whither the silk road?
References
Further Reading
Index
James A. Millward is Professor of Intersocietal History at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His books include Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang and Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864. He has served on the boards of the Association for Asian Studies and the Central Eurasian Studies Society and was president of the latter in 2010.
"As befits the title of the series, The Silk Road: A Very Short
Introduction succeeds in giving the general audience a view of
world history through the lens of biology, technology, commerce,
and culture. A must read for any aspiring enlightened global
citizen."
--Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy award-winning recording artist; artistic
director, The Silk Road Project
"...offers a deeply informed survey of this storied route, paying
attention to the history and legends associated with it, and nicely
combining attention to the standard topics, such as the flow of
people and goods along it, with a good discussion of its role in
the dissemination of artistic practices." -- Jeff Wasserstrom, iLA
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