Beyond the silk roads : : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia / / Magnus Marsden.
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 Afgha...
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| Superior document: | Asian connections |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian connections.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond the silk roads
- 'Take your help away and leave us in peace!' the anthropology of geopolitics as lived
- Inter-Asian corridor of connectivity (1) : the Eurasian world--China, Russia, Ukraine and Western Europe
- Inter-Asian corridor of connectivity (2) : West Asia--China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey
- 'Welcome to Yiwu, China international trade city' everyday life in a Chinese commercial node
- Minorities, commerce and the legacy of Muslim Asia's urban cosmopolitanism : Afghanistan's Hindus and Sikhs
- An alternative Eurasian economic geography : Afghanistan's role in long-distance distance trade
- Afghan restaurants in inter-Asian worlds : prestige, information pooling and cross-cultural exchange in long-distance trade
- Conclusion: Geopolitics, critical responsiveness and navigational agency in Eurasian connectivity.