Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World / Ancient World: Comparative Histories (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early
civilizations' pathways. This international collection of
readings providing a description and comparative analysis of
several...
reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early
civilizations' pathways. This international collection of
readings providing a description and comparative analysis of
several...
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Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early
civilizations' pathways. This international collection of
readings providing a description and comparative analysis of
several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across
pre-modern cultures.
* Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems
of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern
cultures
* Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and
globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and
recent work in network analysis
* Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of
various transportation networks around the globe
* Includes contributions from an international team of scholars
with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas,
North Africa, Europe, and the Near East
* Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case
studies
reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early
civilizations' pathways. This international collection of
readings providing a description and comparative analysis of
several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across
pre-modern cultures.
* Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems
of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern
cultures
* Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and
globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and
recent work in network analysis
* Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of
various transportation networks around the globe
* Includes contributions from an international team of scholars
with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas,
North Africa, Europe, and the Near East
* Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case
studies
Autoren-Porträt
Susan E. Alcock is Director of the Joukowsky Institute forArchaeology and the Ancient World and Joukowsky Family Professor of
Archaeology at Brown University. Her books include
Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and
Memory (2001), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional
Analysis in the Mediterranean Region (co-edited with John
Cherry, 2004); and Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology:
Classical Archaeology (co-edited with Robin Osborne,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
John Bodel is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics
and Professor of History at Brown University. His books include
Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions
(2001), Household and Family Religion in Antiquity: Contextual
and Comparative Perspectives (co-edited with Saul Olyan,
Wiley-Blackwell 2008), and Dediche sacre nel mondo
Greco-Romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (co-edited
with Mika Kajava, 2009).
Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor
of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, where he has taken the lead in establishing the Ancient World
Mapping Center. His books include Cartography in Antiquity and
the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008),
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in
Pre-Modern Societies (co-edited with Kurt A. Raaflaub,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Rome's World: The Peutinger Map
Reconsidered (2010).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 1. Auflage, 312 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, Richard J. A. Talbert
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1118244303
- ISBN-13: 9781118244302
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2012
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