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List of Figures and Tables | p. ix |
Notes on Contributors | p. xiii |
Series Editor's | |
Preface | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism | p. 12 |
The Power of Highway Networks during China's Classical Era (323 BCE-316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities | p. 33 |
Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructure in Late Imperial China (1500-1900) | p. 66 |
Appendix: Chinese Quotations and Glossary | p. 84 |
Linking the Realm: The Gokaidô Highway Network in Early Modern Japan (1603-1868) | p. 90 |
Obliterated Itineraries: Pueblo Trails, Chaco Roads, and Archaeological Knowledge | p. 106 |
Roads to Ruins: The Role of Sacbeob in Ancient Maya Society | p. 128 |
The Chinchaysuyu Road and the Definition of an Inca Imperial Landscape | p. 147 |
The Sahara as Highway for Trade and Knowledge | p. 168 |
From the Indus to the Mediterranean: The Administrative Organization and Logistics of the Great Roads of the Achaemenid Empire | p. 185 |
The Well-Remembered Path: Roadways and Cultural Memory in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt | p. 202 |
Roads, Integration, Connectivity, and Economic Performance in the Roman Empire | p. 222 |
Roads Not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate? | p. 235 |
Road Connectivity and the Structure of Ancient Empires: A Case Study from Late Antiquity | p. 255 |
Jews and News: The Interaction of Private and Official Communication-Networks in Jewish History | p. 265 |
Index | p. 276 |
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