The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient...

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional...

Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads. Exchange between East and West in Antiquity Berit Hildebrandt -- 1. Looking towards the West - how the Chinese viewed the Romans Liu Xinru -- 2. Textiles and trade in South Asia during the Proto-Historic and Early...

Verlagsinfo Aufl. 2012: Warum denken Menschen ökonomisch? Wann entdecken sie diese Denkform? Auf welche individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Probleme ist das Ökonomische eine Antwort? Was ist das überhaupt, das Ökonomische? Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht, die hier aufgeworfenen Fragen an...