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001 2014026794
003 DLC
005 20140716082815.0
008 140711t20152015caua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2014026794
020 $a9780520280595 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0520280598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9780520960299 (ebook)
020 $z0520960297 (ebook)
040 $aCU-S/DLC$beng$erda$cCU-S
042 $apcc
050 00 $aDS33.1$b.W45 2015
082 00 $a950$223
100 1 $aWhitfield, Susan,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 10 $aLife along the Silk Road / Susan Whitfield.
250 $aSecond edition.
263 $a1503
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: the shipmaster's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The soldier's tale -- The horseman's tale -- The princess's tale -- The courtesan's tale -- The pilgrim's tale -- The writer's tale -- The official's tale -- The nun's tale -- The widow's tale -- The artist's tale.
520 $a"In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining"--Provided by publisher.
651 0 $aSilk Road$xHistory.
651 0 $aSilk Road$xBiography.
651 0 $aAsia$xHistory.