|  | Alcock, Susan E. / Bodel, John / Talbert, Richard J. A. (eds.)
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
 1. Edition April 2012
112.- Euro
2012. 312 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-470-67425-3 - John Wiley & Sons
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This international collection of readings reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations' pathways and provides the first description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures. The latest research studies from the Mediterranean and the Near East are brought together with contemporary studies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia to illuminate the logistics of the movement of people and ideas throughout the pre-modern world.
From the contents
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 Classical Era (323 BCE-316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33
Michael Nylan
3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructure in Late Imperial China (1500-1900) 66
Nanny Kim
Appendix: Chinese Quotations and Glossary 84
4 Linking the Realm: The Gokaidô Highway Network in Early Modern Japan (1603-1868) 90
Constantine N. Vaporis
5 Obliterated Itineraries: Pueblo Trails, Chaco Roads, and Archaeological Knowledge 106
James E. Snead
6 Roads to Ruins: The Role of Sacbeob in Ancient Maya Society 128
Justine M. Shaw
7 The Chinchaysuyu Road and the Definition of an Inca Imperial Landscape 147
Catherine Julien
8 The Sahara as Highway for Trade and Knowledge 168
Pekka Masonen
9 From the Indus to the Mediterranean: The Administrative Organization and Logistics of the Great Roads of the Achaemenid Empire 185
Pierre Briant
10 The Well-Remembered Path: Roadways and Cultural Memory in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt 202
Jennifer Gates-Foster
11 Roads, Integration, Connectivity, and Economic Performance in the 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: A Case Study from Late Antiquity 255
Michael Maas and Derek Ruths
14 Jews and News: The Interaction of Private and Official Communication-Networks in Jewish History 265
Adam Silverstein
Index 276
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