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The notion of the "Silk Road" that the German geographer Ferdinand
von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to
scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new
approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological
tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global
perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of
pre-modern empires. The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian
and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists
that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic
development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of
accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It
investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which
were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections. Volume I provides a
comparative history of the most important empires forming in
Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It
surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on
economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the
ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of
economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in
Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine
memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of
collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the
ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites,
those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and
those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of
Emperor Wu's wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with
Ssu-ma Ch'ien's postface containing a history of his family and
himself.
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