Life along the Silk Road
Second Edition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19902980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Whitfield, Susan Whitfield‐gabrieli (0000-0002-9460-167X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Life along the Silk Road (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520960299 |
| OpenAlex | W1990465360 |
| Open Library | OL29715206M |
| ISBN | 9780520960299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of travelers. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled 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 characters new to this edition: 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 both accessible and entertaining
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Desert (philosophy) · Geography · Period (music) · Political science · Portrait · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · asia · biography · Silk Road
The Silk Road
The Road That Never Was
The Sogdians
Yoga in Asia—mimetic History
Bibliography of English Language Sources, 1996 – 2002
Angkor Vogue
Genetic variation in the enigmatic Altaian Kazakhs of South‐Central Russia
Systemic Earthquake and the Struggle for World Order
Globalization
On the Silk Road
Silk Road Trade and Foreign Economic Influences
Trade and Trauma Along the Silk Road, the Evidence from the Western Frontier of China and Mongolia (700 BC–420 AD)
Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia’s Silk Roads
Silk, slaves, and stupas
Journeys beyond the West
The social logic of irrigation. Accessibility based approach towards evaluating the water management infrastructure of the archaeological site of Miran
Archaeology of the Silk Road
Gordāfarid, Penthesilea and Athena
Aurel Stein and the Kiplings
The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe
The City of Blue and White
Walking the Archive
Marco Polo After Abu-Lughod
The geocultural heritage of the Silk Roads
Geocultural Power
Secular Dimensions of the Aśoka Stūpa from the Changgan Monastery of the Song Dynasty
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |