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Connectivity in antiquity : globalization as a long-term historical process / edited by Øystein Sakala LaBianca and Sandra Arnold Scham.

Contributor(s): LaBianca, Øystein Sakala | Scham, Sandra Arnold
Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to anthropological archaeology: Description: vi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 190476813X (alk. paper); 9781904768135 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Civilization, Ancient | Economic history -- To 500 | Commerce -- History -- To 500 | Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500 | Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500 | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities | Middle East -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 382/.09/02 LOC classification: CB311 | .C75 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Grand narratives, technological revolutions and the past : deep-time studies of metallurgy and social evolution in the eastern Mediterranean / Thomas E. Levy -- Emerging state connectivity : dynamic urban and economic growth in fourth and third millennium BCE West Syrian societies / William Collins -- Trade pulsations, collapse, and reorientation in the ancient world / William R. Thompson -- The globalizing effects of 'hajj' in the medieval and modern eras / Bethany J. Walker -- Connectivity : Transjordan during the Persian period / Paul J. Ray, Jr -- Organic globalization and socialization / Sheldon Lee Gosline -- Connectivity in the Longue Duree : Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean world / Leif Manger -- Perceptions of antiquity and the formation of modern resistance identities / Sandra Arnold Scham -- Foreign self and familiar other : the impact of "global" connectivity on New Kingdom Egypt / Jenny Cashman -- Nothing new under the sun? / Manuel Castells.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grand narratives, technological revolutions and the past : deep-time studies of metallurgy and social evolution in the eastern Mediterranean / Thomas E. Levy -- Emerging state connectivity : dynamic urban and economic growth in fourth and third millennium BCE West Syrian societies / William Collins -- Trade pulsations, collapse, and reorientation in the ancient world / William R. Thompson -- The globalizing effects of 'hajj' in the medieval and modern eras / Bethany J. Walker -- Connectivity : Transjordan during the Persian period / Paul J. Ray, Jr -- Organic globalization and socialization / Sheldon Lee Gosline -- Connectivity in the Longue Duree : Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean world / Leif Manger -- Perceptions of antiquity and the formation of modern resistance identities / Sandra Arnold Scham -- Foreign self and familiar other : the impact of "global" connectivity on New Kingdom Egypt / Jenny Cashman -- Nothing new under the sun? / Manuel Castells.

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