Life along the Silk Road
Second Edition 2015
Susan Whitfield (Author)
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to reconstruct the route through the personal experiences of travelers.
In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two characters new to this edition: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf.
Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be both accessible and entertaining.
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Note on Transliteration and Names
Map
Introduction
Prologue: The Shipmaster’s Tale
1. The Merchant’s Tale
2. The Soldier’s Tale
3. The Horseman’s Tale
4. The Princess’s Tale
5. The Courtesan’s Tale
6. The Pilgrim’s Tale
7. The Writer’s Tale
8. The Official’s Tale
9. The Nun’s Tale
10. The Widow’s Tale
11. The Artist’s Tale
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
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| Life along the Silk Road / Susan Whitfield | ||||
| Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999 2f DS33.1 W45 1999 [
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