Seminar on the Ancient World: Silk Road Histories

• e.g.,  "The Silk Roads of World Literature", in The Cambridge History of World Literature

• e.g., The Silk Roads

• e.g., The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

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Course readings as examples

The following list is not an exhaustive list of the readings for this course, but they are included here to illustrate how Omni can be searched to find other related items.

• Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat : The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. (PRINT ON RESERVE)
• Favereau, Marie. The Horde : How the Mongols Changed the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021.
• Hansen, Valerie. The Silk Road : A New History. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Haw, Stephen G. Marco Polo’s China : A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan. London ; Routledge, 2006.
• Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign Devils on the Silk Road : The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. (PRINT ON RESERVE)
• Jarman, Cat. River Kings : A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022. (PRINT ON RESERVE)
• Millward, James A. Eurasian Crossroads : A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
• Park, Hyunhee. Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Whitfield, Susan. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.

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