Alcock / Bodel / Talbert Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-24433-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Ancient World: Comparative Histories

Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern Worldreveals the significance and interconnectedness of earlycivilizations' pathways. This international collection ofreadings providing a description and comparative analysis ofseveral sophisticated systems of transport and communication acrosspre-modern cultures.
* Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systemsof overland transport and communication networks across pre-moderncultures
* Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity andglobalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, andrecent work in network analysis
* Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications ofvarious transportation networks around the globe
* Includes contributions from an international team of scholarswith expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas,North Africa, Europe, and the Near East
* Structured to encourage comparative thinking across casestudies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alcock, Susan E.

Bodel, John

Talbert, Richard J. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Series Editor's Preface xvii
Preface xix
Introduction 1
Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert
1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12
Jason Neelis
2 The Power of Highway Networks during China's ClassicalEra (323 BCE-316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, andDeities 33
Michael Nylan
3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and RoadInfrastructure in Late Imperial China (1500-1900) 66
Nanny Kim
Appendix: Chinese Quotations and Glossary 84
4 Linking the Realm: The Gokaidô Highway Network in EarlyModern Japan (1603-1868) 90
Constantine N. Vaporis
5 Obliterated Itineraries: Pueblo Trails, Chaco Roads, andArchaeological Knowledge 106
James E. Snead
6 Roads to Ruins: The Role of Sacbeob in Ancient MayaSociety 128
Justine M. Shaw
7 The Chinchaysuyu Road and the Definition of an Inca ImperialLandscape 147
Catherine Julien
8 The Sahara as Highway for Trade and Knowledge 168
Pekka Masonen
9 From the Indus to the Mediterranean: The AdministrativeOrganization and Logistics of the Great Roads of the AchaemenidEmpire 185
Pierre Briant
10 The Well-Remembered Path: Roadways and Cultural Memory inPtolemaic and Roman Egypt 202
Jennifer Gates-Foster
11 Roads, Integration, Connectivity, and Economic Performance inthe Roman Empire 222
R. Bruce Hitchner
12 Roads Not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate? 235
Richard J. A. Talbert
13 Road Connectivity and the Structure of Ancient Empires: ACase Study from Late Antiquity 255
Michael Maas and Derek Ruths
14 Jews and News: The Interaction of Private and OfficialCommunication-Networks in Jewish History 265
Adam Silverstein
Index 276

Über Autor(innen)

Susan E. Alcock is Director of the Joukowsky Institute forArchaeology and the Ancient World and Joukowsky Family Professor ofArchaeology at Brown University. Her books includeArchaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments andMemory (2001), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative RegionalAnalysis in the Mediterranean Region (co-edited with JohnCherry, 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 Classicsand Professor of History at Brown University. His books includeEpigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions(2001), Household and Family Religion in Antiquity: Contextualand Comparative Perspectives (co-edited with Saul Olyan,Wiley-Blackwell 2008), and Dediche sacre nel mondoGreco-Romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (co-editedwith Mika Kajava, 2009).
Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professorof History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, ChapelHill, where he has taken the lead in establishing the Ancient WorldMapping Center. His books include Cartography in Antiquity andthe Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008),Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World inPre-Modern Societies (co-edited with Kurt A. Raaflaub,Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Rome's World: The Peutinger MapReconsidered (2010).