The King’s Road : : Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road / / Xin Wen.
An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 36 b/w illus. 9 tables. 7 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Song of Diplomacy on the Silk Road
- Part I Travelers
- 1 An Archive for an Age of Kings
- 2 People
- 3 Things
- Part II Traveling
- 4 Facing the Road
- 5 Praising the Host
- 6 Exchanging Gifts
- 7 Switching Languages
- Part III The King’s Road
- 8 The Economics of Diplomacy
- 9 The Kingly Exchange
- 10 The Politics of the Road
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A note on the type