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Silk Roads - From Local Realities to Global Narratives (Hardcover)
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Silk Roads - From Local Realities to Global Narratives (Hardcover)
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In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the
history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and
public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its
own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject, the
field has moved out of the narrow niches of particular disciplines
to become a truly interdisciplinary endeavor. New research findings
about the historical operations of the Silk Roads and
interpretations of their legacies for the modern and contemporary
world have broken down geographical and temporal divides that once
demarcated the Silk Roads as primarily pre-modern and Old
World-centered conduits of globalization. In light of these
developments, the time is ripe to begin formulating a new
definition of the contour of Silk Roads Studies and laying a new
foundation for further work in this field. Silk Roads: From Local
Realities to Global Narratives brings together leading scholars in
multiple disciplines related to Silk Roads studies. It highlights
the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads,
including land and maritime routes, and approaches the Silk Roads
from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from
Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. This holistic approach to
understanding ancient globalization, exchanges, transformations,
and movements - and their continued relevance to the present - is
in line with contemporary academic trends toward
interdisciplinarity. Indeed, the Silk Roads is such an expansive
topic that many approaches to its study must be included to
represent accurately its many facets. The volume emphasizes
exchange and transformation along the Silk Roads - moments of
acculturation or hybridization that contributed to novel syncretic
forms. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted
the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches
to the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road
Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas.
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