Book description
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations'
pathways. This international collection of readings providing a
description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of
transport and communication across pre-modern cultures.
- Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of
overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures
- Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and
globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and
recent work in network analysis
- Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of
various transportation networks around the globe
- Includes contributions from an international team of scholars with
expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas, North
Africa, Europe, and the Near East
- Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case studies
Susan E. Alcock
is Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient
World and Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology at Brown
University. Her books include Archaeologies of the Greek Past:
Landscape, Monuments and Memory
(2001), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Analysis in the
Mediterranean Region
(co-edited with John Cherry, 2004); and Blackwell Studies in Global
Archaeology: Classical Archaeology
(co-edited with Robin Osborne, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
John Bodel
is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of
History at Brown University. His books include Epigraphic Evidence:
Ancient History from Inscriptions
(2001), Household and Family Religion in Antiquity: Contextual and
Comparative Perspectives
(co-edited with Saul Olyan, Wiley-Blackwell 2008), and Dediche sacre
nel mondo Greco-Romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie
(co-edited with Mika Kajava, 2009).
Richard J. A. Talbert
is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Classics at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taken the lead
in establishing the Ancient World Mapping Center. His books include
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives,
New Methods
(2008), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in
Pre-Modern Societies
(co-edited with Kurt A. Raaflaub, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Rome's
World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
(2010).
