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Connections across Eurasia : transportation, communication, and cultural exchange on the Silk Roads / Xinru Liu, Lynda Norene Shaffer.

Title
Connections across Eurasia : transportation, communication, and cultural exchange on the Silk Roads / Xinru Liu, Lynda Norene Shaffer.
Author
Liu, Xinru.
Publication
Boston : McGraw-Hill, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
Shaffer, Lynda, 1944-
Description
x, 262 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Explorations in world history
Uniform Title
Explorations in world history.
Subject
  • Silk industry > Eurasia > History
  • Soie > Industrie > Histoire. > Eurasie
  • Commerce
  • Silk industry
  • Zijderoute
  • Zijde
  • Internationale handel
  • Eurasia > Commerce > History
  • Silk Road > History
  • Route de la soie > Histoire
  • Asia > Silk Road
  • Eurasia
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Ecological Context for the Emergence of the Eurasian Silk Roads -- The Origina of the Silk Roads: Silks and Horses on the Chinese Frontier -- An Overseas Silk Road: Roman Empire Traders In India, The Yuezhi-Kushan Kingdom, and the Development of Mahayana Buddhism -- The Desert Routes: Second Century BCE to Fifth Century CE -- Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Buddhism: Political Turmoil and A New Relationship Beteen Empire and Religion -- Trade and Communication Under the Muslim System -- Oceans and Seas, 900-1300 -- The Mongol Conquests and A New Order of Trade.
ISBN
  • 9780072843514
  • 0072843519
LCCN
2006048523
OCLC
  • 70699004
  • SCSB-11299395
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library