干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet

Arid

DOI	10.7440/histcrit89.2023.09
	Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet
	Castro, Constanza; Yazdani, Kaveh
通讯作者	Castro, C
来源期刊	HISTORIA CRITICA
ISSN	0121-1617
EISSN	1900-6152
出版年	2023
期号	89 页码:231-252
英文摘要	Objective/Context: This interview discusses the expansion of the camel caravan trade between roughly the sixth and sixteenth centuries. Wheeled transportation-used in West Asia during the Roman and Sasanid periods-basically disappeared around 500 CE, when camel caravans took over the transport business. Since the domestication of camels in Southern Arabia, sometime between 4000 and 3000 BCE, and its adaptation over centuries to carrying loads in the sparsely vegetated desert, the network of camel caravan activity gradually extended way beyond its original center. The caravan system increasingly expanded into many areas of West and Central Asia, North Africa, North India, North-West China, and, to some extent, even parts of Islamicate Europe (Andalusia and Sicily). Indeed, camel caravans became the most extensive network of overland transportation the world had seen before the rise of railroad transportation. Originality: In this interview, Richard W. Bulliet discusses how camel caravans replaced wheeled transport in the Middle East and how the caravan system restructured many facets of socio-economic and political life in the Arid Zone between approximately 500 and 1500 CE. Conclusion: The depth of this restructuring, he argues, can be compared to changes in the mode of production commonly observed by economic historians elsewhere, including those associated with the rise of mercantile capitalism.
英文关键词	camel caravan trade mercantile capitalism Middle East mode of production transportation
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:001043242700009
WOS类目	History
WOS研究方向	History
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/396833
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Castro, Constanza,Yazdani, Kaveh. Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet[J],2023(89):231-252.
APA	Castro, Constanza,&Yazdani, Kaveh.(2023).Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet.HISTORIA CRITICA(89),231-252.
MLA	Castro, Constanza,et al."Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet".HISTORIA CRITICA .89(2023):231-252.