Silk, Slaves, and Stupas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silk, Slaves, and Stupas write by Susan Whitfield. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.
Life Along the Silk Road
Life Along the Silk Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Along the Silk Road write by Susan Whitfield. This book was released on 1999. Life Along the Silk Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Silk Road was the most traveled trade route for over 1,000 years until it was eclipsed by maritime trade. Whitfield presents composite stories of merchants, soldiers, artists, and princesses who traveled the route, and presents its history through their personal experiences.
Everyday Cosmopolitanisms
Everyday Cosmopolitanisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Cosmopolitanisms write by Kathryn J. Franklin. This book was released on 2021-09-28. Everyday Cosmopolitanisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foreword -- The Silk Road, medieval globality, and 'everyday cosmopolitanism' -- The Silk Road as literary spacetime -- Techniques of worldmaking in medieval Armenia -- Making and unmaking the world of the Kasakh Valley -- Traveling through Armenia : caravan inns and the material experience of Silk Road travel -- The world in a bowl : intimate and delicious everyday spacetimes on the Silk Road -- Everyday cosmopolitanisms : rewriting the shape of the Silk Road world.
The Mortal Sea
The Mortal Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mortal Sea write by W. Jeffrey Bolster. This book was released on 2012-10-08. The Mortal Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary problem, Bolster reveals that humans were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself. Bolster writes in the hope that the intimate relationship humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that live within it, can be restored for future generations.
Opium Regimes
Opium Regimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opium Regimes write by Timothy Brook. This book was released on 2000-09-18. Opium Regimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.
