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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed and stained binding, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener und angeschmutzter Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Introduction�Ancient Network Societies -- Section One: The �Space of Flows� in Antiquity -- Introduction to Section One - Grand Narratives, Technological Revolutions and the Past: Deep-Time Studies of Metallurgy and Social Evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean (Thomas E. Levy) - Emerging State Connectivity: Dynamic Urban and Economic Growth in Fourth and Third Millennium BCE West Syrian Societies (William Collins) - Trade Pulsations, Collapse and Reorientation in the Ancient World (William R. Thompson) -- Section Two: Cognitive Globalization in History -- Introduction to Section Two - The Globalizing Effects of �Hajj� in the Medieval and Modern Eras (Bethany J. Walker) - Connectivity: Transjordan during the Persian Period (Paul J. Ray, Jr.) - Organic Globalization and Socialization (Sheldon Lee Gosline) -- Section Three: Antiquity and the Power of Identity -- Introduction to Section Three - Connectivity in the Longue Duree: Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean World (Leif Manger) - Perceptions of Antiquity and the Formation of Modern Resistance Identities (Sandra Arnold Scham) - Foreign Self and Familiar Other: The Impact of �Global� Connectivity on New Kingdom Egypt (Jenny Cashman) - Nothing New Under the Sun? (Manuel Castells). ISBN 9781904768135