Reimagining the Silk Roads : Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia (Hardcover)

1. Reimagining the ‘silk roads’: An introduction; Part 1 - Environment; 2. Climates of the Silk Road through the Common Era; 3. Ecological Variability and Early Agriculture along the Proto-Silk Roads; 4. Diseases and the Medieval Silk Roads; Part 2 - Material Culture; 5. Roman Palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce: Material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence; 6. Abbasid Caliphate and Tang Dynasty in the ninth and tenth centuries: Trade, acculturation, and transformation; 7. Natron Glass and the silk roads in the first millennium BCE; 8. A ‘Lion’ on the Silk Road; Part 3 - Faiths and Social Groups; 9. Buddhist Missionaries at Medieval Chinese Courts: State Ideologists and Soul Savers; 10. The Sogdians, the ‘Cultural Bees’ of Eurasia; 11. Huns and Romans in the Fourth Century; 12. Christianity on the Silk Roads; 13. Dzhankent (Kazakhstan) ? An early medieval trading node on the Northern Silk Road; 14. Replacing the Silk Road? Central Asian merchants between China and Scandinavia, 840?1000 CE; 15. Slavery and Human Trafficking along the Medieval Silk Roads, c. 800 to c.1350; Part 4 - Patterns of Eurasian trade;16. Mapping Knowledge about the Eurasian Silk Roads in the fifteenth century; 17. The Silk Road in Northeast Asia: Courtly Gift-giving, 668-1449; 18. Iberian Silk Roads: Spices, Silver and Souls; 19. Southeast Asia, China, and the ‘maritime silk roads’, c.900-1650;Part 5 - Historical Myths and Reconceptualisation; 20. The Birth of Silk Road Studies in China: Hedin, Andersson and Sino-Swedish Collaboration in Republican China; 21. The Belt and Road Initiative at Ten (2013-2023): A Crucial Juncture for China’s Infrastructure Geopolitics; 22. The Road Which Binds: The BRI, nationalism, and the securitization of Xinjiang; 23 Visualising the Silk Roads; 24. Conclusion:?Questioning and Recovering the Silk Roads.