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Free Download Franck Billé, "The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities "
English | ISBN: 9463722246 | 2022 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modelling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From architecture to cuisine, and language to clothing, evidence points to early connections both within Asia and between Asia and other continents―well before European explorations of the Global South. The human stories presented here offer insights into both the extent and limits of this global exchange, showing how goods and people travelled vast distances, how they were embedded in regional networks, and how local cultures were shaped as a result.

Free Download Franck Billé, "The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities "
English | ISBN: 9463722246 | 2022 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modelling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From architecture to cuisine, and language to clothing, evidence points to early connections both within Asia and between Asia and other continents―well before European explorations of the Global South. The human stories presented here offer insights into both the extent and limits of this global exchange, showing how goods and people travelled vast distances, how they were embedded in regional networks, and how local cultures were shaped as a result.

Free Download Nai Xia, "Studies in Silk Road Archaeology"
English | ISBN: 9819974747 | 2024 | 367 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book is a collection of Nai Xia’s quintessential works on Silk Road studies. A key resource in the field of Silk Road Archaeology, it features in-depth content, a broad range of material, careful textual research, and meticulous analysis. With thorough investigations of foreign coinage, silk textiles, and artifacts with foreign styles excavated in different parts of China, it explores the exchange between ancient China and Central Asia, Western Asia, and Europe. In particular, this book provides detailed descriptions of the economic and cultural ties between ancient China, Pre-Islamic Arabia, the Sasanian Empire, and the Byzantine Empire. The research propounds innovative theories on the history and evolution of East-West transportation routes, i.e., the overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road. Based on the study of ancient relics and excavated artifacts, it points out that cultural exchange along the Silk Road was never unilateral, but instead, mutual influence and cooperation were obvious. Since ancient times, countries along the Silk Road have had a tradition of amicable foreign relations and the promotion of common interests. The book is intended for academics, scholars and researchers.

Free Download 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wind Energy Resource Evaluation by Chongwei Zheng
English | EPUB | 2021 | 189 Pages | ISBN : 9811641102 | 110.3 MB
This book aims to establish a wind energy evaluation system, to provide scientific reference for site selection, daily operation and long-term planning of wind power generation, thus to make contribution to breaking the shackles of power shortage. Firstly, it presents the advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind power, then further discusses about the status quo and challenges for wind power programs along the Maritime Silk Road and offer suggestions.

Free Download Red Silk Carpet – No. 92, January 2024
English | 142 pages | PDF | 81.80 MB

Free Download Red Silk Carpet – No. 91, January 2024
English | 104 pages | PDF | 55.50 MB

Free Download Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road: Conference 2016 Postprints
by Gabriela Krist, Liangren Zhang
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3205200446 | 216 Pages | PDF | 57 MB

Free Download Agriculture through the Ages: From Silk to Supermarkets (Technology through the Ages) by Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods
English | January 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 9798765619377 | 84 pages | True PDF | 5.11 MB
After the last ice age, humans began to settle down and grow their own food. Learn how advances in ancient agricultural practices have aided our modern food system.

Free Download Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197582796 | 409 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Who, if anyone, should regulate the internet? Governments around the world have answered this question robustly: they will. Data sovereignty-the exercise of control over the internet-is the ambition of world leaders as a natural extension of traditional sovereignty and as a bulwark against the reach of foreign power. The question posed to governments now is not who should regulate the internet, but how should it be done.

Free Download Michelle C. Wang, "Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture "
English | ISBN: 9004685553 | 2023 | 432 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a "book," and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts.