Ancient Trade and Tribute
Author : Barbara Voorhies
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
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ISBN : 9780783785585
Author : Barbara Voorhies
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
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ISBN : 9780783785585
Author : Howard J. Erlichman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633886629
This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between precious metals like gold and silver as sources of economic wealth and the rise of empires, showing that the forces of globalization have been five centuries in the making.
Author : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606065483
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Author : Manuel Perez Garcia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9811040532
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.
Author : Kenneth M. Swope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315282798
This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary efforts. It demonstrates the benefi ts of a global history approach, outlining the complex interactions between Western traders and Asian states and entrepreneurs. Overall, the book presents much interesting new material on this complicated and understudied period. .
Author : Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1473889812
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan), laying claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria. Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome’s trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road, the Han carried eastern products as far as Persia and the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Though they were matched in scale, the Han surpassed its European rival in military technology. The first book to address these subjects in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.
Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1984-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521269315
The trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.
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File Size : 34,74 MB
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Author : Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1847252354
Studies the complex system of trade exchanges and commerce that profoundly changed Roman society.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884022114
Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."