Trade and Civilisation : Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era (Hardcover)

1. Theorizing trade and civilization?Kristian Kristiansen; 2. Cloth and currency: on the ritual-economics of Eurasian textile circulation and the 'origins' of trade, fifth to second millennia BC?Toby C. Wilkinson; 3. Prices and Values Origins and early history in the Near East?David A. Warburton; 4. The rise of Bronze Age peripheries and the expansion of international trade 1950?1100 BC Kristian Kristiansen; 5. Interlocking commercial networks and the infrastructure of trade in western Asia during the Bronze Age Gojko Barjamovic; 6. Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek political economies and international trade Michael L. Galaty; 7. Deconstructing civilisation: a 'neolithic' alternative?Michael Rowlands; 8. Marginalizing civilization: the Phoenician redefinition of power ca. 1300?800 BCE?Christopher M. Monroe; 9. The birth of a single Afro-Eurasian world-system (second century BC?sixth century CE)?Philippe Beaujard; 10. On the Silk Road. Trade in the Tarim??Susan Whitfield; 11. Trade, traders, and trading systems: macro-modeling of trade, commerce, and civilization in the Indian Ocean?Rahul Oka; 12. Trade and civilization in Medieval East Africa: socioeconomic networks?Chapurukha M. Kusimba; 13. Conflictive trade, values, and power relations in maritime trading polities of the tenth to the sixteenth centuries in the Philippines?Laura Junker; 14. The Hanseatic League as an economic and social phenomenon: archaeo-ceramic case studies in cultural transfer and resistance in Western and Northern Europe, c. 1250?1550 David Gaimster; 15. Elliot Smith reborn? A view of prehistoric globalizaton from the island southeast Asian and Pacific margins?Matthew Spriggs; 16. Trade-light: the political economy of Polynesian and Andean civilizations Timothy Earle; 17. Long-distance exchange and ritual technologies of power in the pre-Hispanic Andes?Alf Hornborg; 18. Empire, civilization, and trade ? the Roman experience in world history Peter Bang; 19. World trade in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?Thomas Lindkvist and Janken Myrdal; 20. Postscript: getting the goods for civilization Jonathan Friedman.