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Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia / by Neelis, Jason Emmanuel

Table of Contents: “…Models for the Movement of Buddhism ; Merit, Merchants, and the Buddhist Sangha ; Sources and Methods for the study of Buddhist ; Transmission ; Outline of Destinations -- Two Historical Contexts for the Emergence and Transmission of Buddhism within South Asia. Initial Phases of the Establishment of Buddhist Communities in Early India ; Legacy of the Mauryans: Asoka as Dharmaraja ; Migrations, Material Exchanges, and Cross-Cultural Transmission in Northwestern Contact Zones ; Saka Migrants and Mediators between Central Asia and South Asia ; Dynamics of Mobility during the Kusana Period ; Shifting Networks of Political Power and Institutional Patronage during the Gupta Period ; Cross-Cultural Transmission between South Asia and Central Asia, ca. 500-1000 CE -- Trade Networks in Ancient South Asia ; Northern Route (Uttarapatha) ; Southern Route (Daksinapatha) ; Seaports and Maritime Routes across the Indian Ocean -- Old Roads in the Northwestern Borderlands ; Environmental Conditions for Buddhist Transmission in Gandhara ; Gandharan Material and Literary Cultures ; Gandharan Nodes and Networks ; Routes of Buddhist Missionaries and Pilgrims to and from Gandhara ; Domestication of Gandharan Buddhism -- Capillary Routes of the Upper Indus. …”
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Forces of Nature : New Perspectives on Korean Environments /

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The economics of transition : developing and reforming emerging economies /

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Boats of the world : from the Stone Age to Medieval times / by McGrail, Sean

Table of Contents: “…THE MEDITERRANEAN -- 4.I Reconstructing past sea levels and climates -- 4.2 Environmental conditions -- 4.3 Overseas passages -- 4.4 Exploration and navigation -- 4.5 Water transport before the Bronze Age -- (before c.3800 Be) -- 4.6 The Early Bronze Age (c.3800-2000oo Bc) -- 4.7 The Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-I50oo BC) -- 4.8 The Late Bronze Age (c.I550-I00 BC) -- 4.9 The Early Iron Age (C.I00-550 BC) -- 4.Io The trireme of the seventh-fourth centuries BC -- 4.1I Shipbuilding before the third century BC -- 4.12 The Hellenistic Age (fourth-first centuries BC) -- 4.I3 The Roman Age (mid-second century -- Bc-fourth century AD) -- 4.14 Propulsion, steering, and seafaring -- 4.15 Early frame-first vessels -- 4.16 Design of medieval frame-first ships -- 5. …”
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