Oystein S. Labianca, Sandra Arnold Scham

Connectivity in Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two concepts that have become the current watchwords for the media as well as academia, globalisation and long-term historical processes, are brought together in this collection of papers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134946358
• Artikelnr.: 44876588

Autorenporträt

Oystein S. LaBianca, Sandra Arnold Scham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ancient Network Societies? ( A ystein LaBianca and Sandra
Arnold Scham ) Section One: The 'Space of Flows' in Antiquity: 1. Grand
Narratives, Technological Revolutions and the Past: Deep-Time Studies of
Metallurgy and Social Evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean ( Thomas E.
Levy, UCSD ) 2. Emerging State Connectivity: Dynamic Urban and Economic
Growth in Third Millennium BCE West Syrian Societies ( William Collins, UC
Berkeley ) 3. Trade Pulsations, Collapse and Reorientation in the Ancient
World ( William R. Thompson, Indiana University ) Section Two: Cognitive
Globalization in History: 4. The Globalizing Effects of Hajj in the
Medieval and Modern Eras ( Bethany J. Walker, Oklahoma State University
) 5. Connectivity: Transjordan during the Persian Period ( Paul J. Ray,
Jr., Andrews University ) 6. The Organic Globalization and Socialization of
Civilization ( Sheldon Lee Gosline, Sangri-La Press ) Section Three:
Antiquity and the Power of Identity: 7. Connectivity in the Longue Duree:
Hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean World ( Leif Manger,
University of Bergen ) 8. Perceptions of Antiquity and the Formation of
Modern Resistance Identities ( Sandra Arnold Scham ) 9. Foreign Self and
Familiar Other: The Impact of "Global" Connectivity on New Kingdom Egypt (
Jenny Cashman, Oxford University ) 10. Comments and Conclusions ( Manuel
Castells, UC Berkeley )