Beyond Silk Road

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108976503

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Beyond the Silk Roads by Magnus Marsden Pdf

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Kenneth Nebenzahl
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060126136

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Mapping the Silk Road by Kenneth Nebenzahl Pdf

Nebenzahl documents the mapping and discovery of West Asia and the trade routes of the Silk Road. The book includes rare maps spanning 2,000 years of cartographic history.

Author : Colin Thubron,Carlos Navajas
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671701754

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The Silk Road by Colin Thubron,Carlos Navajas Pdf

Shows and describes points of interest along the Silk Road in the Sinkiang province of China, the most landlocked location in Asia

Author : Ivor Whitall
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781912158676

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The Silk Road and Beyond by Ivor Whitall Pdf

True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.

Author : United States. Congress,United States Senate
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977699626

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Beyond Silk Road by United States. Congress,United States Senate Pdf

Beyond Silk Road : potential risks, threats, and promises of virtual currencies : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, November 18, 2013.

Author : Christina Sumner,Heleanor Feltham,Powerhouse Museum
Publisher : Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015051286576

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Beyond the Silk Road by Christina Sumner,Heleanor Feltham,Powerhouse Museum Pdf

This volume presents the Powerhouse Museum's collection of costumes, textiles,ugs, lithographs of designs and metalwork from Central Asia. The vividmages are accompanied by essays which look at the nexus between the nomadicnd settled cultures of Central Asia and at the history of this region.

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : China
ISBN : 185510007X

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The Silk Road China by Colin Thubron Pdf

Author : Iftikhar H. Malik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199405964

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The Silk Road and Beyond by Iftikhar H. Malik Pdf

The Silk Road and Beyond attempts to capture lived realities across Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Finland, Britain, USA, Palestine, Switzerland, Finland, and the subcontinent. It also aims at initiating readers into encountering Muslim heritage across the four continents where cultures share commonalities beyond the narrowly defined premise of conflicts. This book is an effort to capture history, literature, mobility, crafts, architectural traditions, and cultural vistas by focusing on diverse Muslim individuals, communities, cities, and their edifices. It attempts to reconstruct deeper and munificent aspects of Muslim histories and lived experience that often stay ignored by the writers and travellers. Normative accounts of cities such as Bukhara, Jerusalem, Isfahan, Fes, Samarkand, Granada, Palermo, Cordova, or Konya may lifelessly posit them as sheer tourist destinations, ignoring their cultural and historical depth. Written in an autobiographical genre, this book benefits from a 40-year-long exposure and encounters with the vibrant lives across the four continents as experienced by a curious Muslim academic at different stages of his life. The reader can explore and relish these predominantly Muslim locales along with a frequent exposure to r socio-intellectual institutions in Europe and the United States.

Author : United States. Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Homeland Security and Af Governmental
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981588264

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Beyond Silk Road by United States. Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Homeland Security and Af Governmental Pdf

Beyond Silk Road : potential risks, threats, and promises of virtual currencies : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, November 18, 2013.

Author : Committee on Homeland Security and Gover,Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1507617801

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Beyond Silk Road by Committee on Homeland Security and Gover,Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Pdf

Over the past several months, this Committee has engaged in an investigation into the potential implications of virtual currencies. During the course of this inquiry, we have examined the issues and potential risks and threats that virtual currencies pose, as well as some of the potential promises that some believe they can bring. Virtual currency can best be described as digital cash. It is generated by computers, lives on the Internet, and can be used to purchase real and digital goods across the world. Some proponents believe that digital currencies can prove valuable to those in developing countries without access to stable financial systems. Others believe it could prove to be a next generation payment system for retailers both online and in the real world. At the same time, however, virtual currencies can be an effective tool for those looking to launder money, for those looking to traffic illegal drugs, for those looking to exploit children around the world, and the list goes on. While virtual currencies have seen increased attention from regulators, law enforcement, investors, and entrepreneurs in recent months, there are still many unanswered questions and unresolved issues.

Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101946336

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The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street Journal From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. Also available: The New Silk Roads, a timely exploration of the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.

Author : Carol A. Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0958002126

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The Silk Road and Beyond by Carol A. Bacon Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231006012

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Youth Lens on the Silk Roads by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Harriet Sandys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1911487167

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Beyond That Last Blue Mountain by Harriet Sandys Pdf

Silk weaving in Afghanistan, bartering in Peshawar and snipers in Bosnia, Harriet Sandys reveals her remarkable travels in her memoir, Beyond that Last Blue Mountain

Author : Dilnoza Duturaeva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510333

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Qarakhanid Roads to China by Dilnoza Duturaeva Pdf

Qarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China’s relations with neighboring regions.