Trade and civilisation : economic networks and cultural ties, from prehistory to the early modern era / edited by Kristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg, Thomas Lindkvist, University of Gothenburg, Janken Myrdal, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
| Other author | Kristiansen, Kristian, 1948- editor. |
| Other author | Lindkvist, Thomas, 1949- editor. |
| Other author | Myrdal, Janken, 1949- editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 554 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Trade and civilization |
| Contents | Theorizing trade and civilization / Kristian Kristiansen -- Cloth and currency : on the ritual-economics of Eurasian textile circulation and the origins of trade, fifth to second millennia BC / Toby C. Wilkinson -- Prices and values : origins and early history in the Near East / David A. Warburton -- Rise of Bronze Age peripheries and the expansion of international trade 1950-1100 BC / Kristian Kristiansen -- Interlocking commercial networks and the infrastructure of trade in western Asia during the Bronze Age / Gojko Barjamovic -- Mycenaean glocalism : Greek political economies and international trade / Michael L. Galaty -- Deconstructing civilisation : a 'neolithic' alternative / Michael Rowlands, Dorian Q. Fuller -- Marginalizing civilization : the Phoenician redefinition of power circa 1300-800 BC / Christopher M. Monroe -- Birth of a single Afro-Eurasian world-system (second century BC-sixth century CE) / Philippe Beaujard -- On the Silk Road : Trade in the Tarim? / Susan Whitfield -- Trade, traders, and trading systems : macromodeling of trade, commerce, and civilization in the Indian Ocean / Rahul Oka -- Trade and civilization in medieval East Africa : socioeconomic networks / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Conflictive trade, values, and power relations in maritime trading polities of the tenth to the sixteenth centuries in the Philippines / Laura Junker -- Hanseatic League as an economic and social phenomenon : archaeo-ceramic case studies in cultural transfer and resistance in western and northern Europe, circa 1250-1550 / David Gaimster -- Elliot Smith reborn? : a view of prehistoric globalization from the island Southeast Asian and Pacific margins / Matthew Spriggs -- Trade-light : the political economy of Polynesian and Andean civilizations / Timothy Earle -- Long-distance exchange and ritual technologies of power in the pre-Hispanic Andes / Alf Hornborg -- Empire, civilization, and trade : the Roman experience in world history / Peter Fibiger Bang -- World trade in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Thomas Lindkvist, Janken Myrdal -- Postscript : getting the goods for civilization / Jonathan Friedman. |
| Abstract | This book provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation 3000 BC until the modern era 1600 AD. Encompassing the various networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant, the products of trade, the role of the state, and the technical conditions for land and sea transport that created diverging systems of trade and in the development of global trade networks. Trade networks, however, were not durable. The book focuses on the establishment and decline of great trading network systems, and how they related to the expansion of civilisation, and to different forms of social and economic exploitation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Trade and civilisation 9781108425414 9781108442312 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781108636292 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781108340946 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108636292 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108340946 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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