Global Trade in the Premodern World
Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms and Networks
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- ISBN 9780367512248
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.
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Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.
The book tackles questions that are critical to our understanding of premodern globalization. How did global trade in the premodern world take shape? Who did the trading and what motivated them? Which commodities were traded and how did different goods influence how trading networks functioned? How did geography change how and where people carried goods? How did states and communities seek to control the practice of commerce? And finally, what was the impact of trade on political structures and in the relationship between different states, empires, and communities?
Drawing on the fruits of research in history, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as primary sources produced by authors from Africa, Asia and Europe, Global Trade in the Premodern World is a book of remarkable scope written engagingly and accessibly with scholars, students, and non-specialists in mind.
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Note on Writing ? Edmond Smith
Introduction: A Book of Routes and Realms
Trade in Global History
Scope and Structure
Chapter One: The Origins of Trade
Trade and Human Society
Long-Distance Trade in Prehistoric Eurasia
Case Study: The Incense Road
Case Study: The Amber Trails
Chapter Two: Trade Across the Steppe
Pastoralists, Nomads and Steppe Society
Forms of Exchange
Chapter Three: Controlling the Steppe Frontier
Strategies for Border Security
Crossing Borders
Case Study: China?s Border Markets
Chapter Four: Travel and Transport
Measuring and Mapping
Traversing the Land
Traversing the Seas
Chapter Five: Merchants and Networks
Making Trade Work
Routes and Systems
Case Study: The Trans-Saharan Route
Chapter Six: Commodities of the Premodern World
The Premodern Market Stall
Global Commodities in Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index
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