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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; One Theorizing Trade and Civilization; Introduction; Cognitive Geographies and Trade Networks; The Rise of Mobile Technologies and Institutions; Traders and Their Institutions; Comparative Advantage and Regional Division of Labor; Agents of the International Trade Networks; Technologies of Trade and the Civilizational Process; The Risks of Trade
Predictable and Unpredictable; From World System to Value System: Networks and the Transmission of Values and Institutions
Civilizations in the MakingReferences; Two Cloth and Currency: On the Ritual-Economics of Eurasian Textile...; Civilization and the Origins of Trade; "Trade" in Plain Light: Old Assyrian Textile Circulation; Ethnographic Notes on Textile Circulation and Textile Currency; Lele and Raffia Cloth; Trobrianders and Banana Palm Bundles; Samoa and 'Ie Toga/Pandanu Mats; The Archaeology of Textile Circulation in the Fourth and Third Millennia BC; Textiles and Metals: A Contagious Nexus for Urban Trade?; Trade as Centrifugal Force of Civilization; References
Three Prices and Values: Origins and Early History in the Near EastIntroduction; The Bronze Age Near East; The System of Measurement; Equivalencies and States; Kings, Gods, Preciosities, and Markets; Core-Periphery Relations, Labor, and Compensations; The Origins of Abstraction and Value; Money and Values; Weights and Justice; The Genesis of Money; The Early to Middle Bronze Age Transformation; Conclusions; Notes; References; Four The Rise of Bronze Age Peripheries and the Expansion of International Trade 1950-1100 BC; Introduction; Foreign Traders and Exchange Values
1950-1750 BC: First Commercial Contacts and the Rise of Wealthy Peripheries in the Caucasus and BeyondTrialeti and Trade in Metal and Horses; 1750-1500 BC: Going West; Minoans and Mycenaeans Trading Tin from Wessex, Salt and Silver from the Carpathians, and Amber from South Scandinavia; 1500-1200 BC: Going North; The Integration of South Scandinavia into the Mediterranean Trade System; 1200-1100 BC: The Periphery Hits Back; Mercenaries, Sea Peoples and the Fall of the East Mediterranean Palace Economies; Conclusion: From Bronze Age World System to Bronze Age Value System; References
Five Interlocking Commercial Networks and the Infrastructure of Trade in Western Asia during the Bronze AgeReferences; Six Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek Political Economies and International Trade; Sources of Variation; Geography; History; Boundaries; Agency; Mycenaean States Compared; The Argolid and Messenia; Slope; Soil; Travel Times; Least-Cost Paths; Sacred Sites; Political Economy; Mycenaean Glocalism; Burial Customs; Wanax and Damos; Pots and Ports; Mycenaeans in the Adriatic; Conclusion; Notes; References; Seven Deconstructing Civilisation: A 'Neolithic' Alternative; Introduction
Predictable and Unpredictable; From World System to Value System: Networks and the Transmission of Values and Institutions
Civilizations in the MakingReferences; Two Cloth and Currency: On the Ritual-Economics of Eurasian Textile...; Civilization and the Origins of Trade; "Trade" in Plain Light: Old Assyrian Textile Circulation; Ethnographic Notes on Textile Circulation and Textile Currency; Lele and Raffia Cloth; Trobrianders and Banana Palm Bundles; Samoa and 'Ie Toga/Pandanu Mats; The Archaeology of Textile Circulation in the Fourth and Third Millennia BC; Textiles and Metals: A Contagious Nexus for Urban Trade?; Trade as Centrifugal Force of Civilization; References
Three Prices and Values: Origins and Early History in the Near EastIntroduction; The Bronze Age Near East; The System of Measurement; Equivalencies and States; Kings, Gods, Preciosities, and Markets; Core-Periphery Relations, Labor, and Compensations; The Origins of Abstraction and Value; Money and Values; Weights and Justice; The Genesis of Money; The Early to Middle Bronze Age Transformation; Conclusions; Notes; References; Four The Rise of Bronze Age Peripheries and the Expansion of International Trade 1950-1100 BC; Introduction; Foreign Traders and Exchange Values
1950-1750 BC: First Commercial Contacts and the Rise of Wealthy Peripheries in the Caucasus and BeyondTrialeti and Trade in Metal and Horses; 1750-1500 BC: Going West; Minoans and Mycenaeans Trading Tin from Wessex, Salt and Silver from the Carpathians, and Amber from South Scandinavia; 1500-1200 BC: Going North; The Integration of South Scandinavia into the Mediterranean Trade System; 1200-1100 BC: The Periphery Hits Back; Mercenaries, Sea Peoples and the Fall of the East Mediterranean Palace Economies; Conclusion: From Bronze Age World System to Bronze Age Value System; References
Five Interlocking Commercial Networks and the Infrastructure of Trade in Western Asia during the Bronze AgeReferences; Six Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek Political Economies and International Trade; Sources of Variation; Geography; History; Boundaries; Agency; Mycenaean States Compared; The Argolid and Messenia; Slope; Soil; Travel Times; Least-Cost Paths; Sacred Sites; Political Economy; Mycenaean Glocalism; Burial Customs; Wanax and Damos; Pots and Ports; Mycenaeans in the Adriatic; Conclusion; Notes; References; Seven Deconstructing Civilisation: A 'Neolithic' Alternative; Introduction