Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century

Harris, Anthea

doi:doi:10.30861/9781407300788

Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century

Anthea Harris

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This volume comprises the publication of a one-day conference held at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) on 19th November 2005. The title of this volume is borrowed from Jan Aarte Scholte, who uses 'incipient globalization' to describe what he sees as the second historic stage of globalization: the period between the 1850s and 1950s, when means and modes of communication such as the telegraph, radio, television, aeroplanes and cars were developed.

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Globalizing Late Antiquity: Models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy
Using bracteates as evidence for long-distance contacts
Menas ampullae: a case study of long-distance contacts
The limits of long-distance exchange: evidence from sixth-century Palaestina/Arabia
The Importation of Byzantine and Sasanian Glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries
‘Byzantine’ and ‘oriental’ imports in the Merovingian Empire from the second half of the fifth to the beginning of the eighth century
Ethiopian Christian material culture: the international context. Aksum, the Mediterranean and the Syriac worlds in the fifth to seventh centuries
Britain and China at opposite ends of the world? Archaeological methodology and long-distance contacts in the sixth century

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Published: 2007

Publisher: BAR Publishing

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9781407331140 (ebook)
9781407300788 (paperback)

BAR Number: S1644

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Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century

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