Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies: Volume 1: Contexts
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Transliteration and Orthography -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Ancient Economies and Global Connections -- Part I: Empires -- Introduction -- 1. The Hellenistic Empires -- 2. Central Asian Empires -- 3. Early Historic South Asia -- 4. The Qin and Han Empires -- 5. The Xiongnu Empire -- 6. The Arsakid Empire -- 7. The Roman Empire -- Part II: Evidence -- Introduction -- 8. Graeco-Roman Evidence -- 8.A Material Evidence -- 8.B Transmitted Texts -- 8.C Documentary Sources -- 9. Evidence for Central Asia -- 10. Evidence for Early South Asia -- 10.A Indic Sources -- 10.B Graeco-Roman Indography -- 11. Evidence for Arsakid Economic History -- 12. Qin and Han Evidence -- 12.A Transmitted Texts -- 12.B Excavated Texts -- 12.C Material Evidence: Lacquerware -- Part III: Historiographies -- Introduction -- 13. Russian Perspectives on Eurasian Pasts -- 14. The Qin and Han Economies in Modern Chinese and Japanese Historiographies -- 15. Trends in Economic History Writing of Early South Asia -- 16. Constructing Ancient Central Asia's Economic History -- 17. Economy, Frontiers, and the Silk Road in Western Historiographies of Graeco- Roman Antiquity -- Index