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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan), laying claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria. Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome’s trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road, the Han carried eastern products as far as Persia and the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Though they were matched in scale, the Han surpassed its European rival in military technology. The first book to address these subjects in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.

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Pen and Sword

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1473889812

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The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India

By: Raoul McLaughlin

This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.

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1473840953

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The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India

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Rome and the Distant East

Trade Routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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Rome and the Distant East

Trade Routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

In ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These sources describe how Roman traders went far beyond the frontiers of their Empire, travelling on overland journeys and maritime voyages to acquire the silk, spices and aromatics of the remote East. Records from ancient China, early India and a range of significant archaeological discoveries provide further evidence for these commercial contacts. Truly global in its scope, this study is the first comprehensive enquiry into the extent of this trade and its wider significance to the Roman world. It investigates the origins and development of Roman trade voyages across the Indian Ocean, considers the role of distant diplomacy and studies the organization of the overland trade networks that crossed the inner deserts of Arabia through the Incense Routes between the Yemeni Coast and ancient Palestine. It also considers the Silk Road that extended from Roman Syria across Iraq, through the Persian Empire into inner Asia and, ultimately, China.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441162232

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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China

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Rome and China

Points of Contact

By: Hyun Jin Kim,Samuel N.C. Lieu,Raoul McLaughlin

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Rome and China

Points of Contact

By: Hyun Jin Kim,Samuel N.C. Lieu,Raoul McLaughlin

Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia’s most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China. It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed for actual contacts between Rome and China (however fleeting) and examines in detail the influences from both ends of Eurasia which had cultural and political consequences for both Rome and China. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on the Roman Empire, Inner Asia, the Silk Routes and China in the Classical and Late Antique periods.

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Routledge

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131528071X

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Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era

By: Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies

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Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era

By: Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies

This book assesses Canadian security and defence requirements post September 11.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077352973X

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9780773529731

Inauspicious Beginnings

Principal Powers and International Security Institutions After the Cold War, 1989-1999

By: Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies

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Inauspicious Beginnings

Principal Powers and International Security Institutions After the Cold War, 1989-1999

By: Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies

Inauspicious Beginnings shows that at the end of the Cold War many experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending conflicts. But while the 1990s proved to be a decade of international insecurity and major humanitarian disasters, thus demonstrating the need for a wider and more efficient system of security institutions, the principal powers failed to create them. Instead, the emerging order was marked by the overwhelming power of the United States, which, under the Bush Sr and Clinton administrations, did not see such a system as a necessity. The authors detail how the Bush and Clinton administrations relied on catering to allies and building large coalitions to deal with major international security challenges, while other principal powers were either pre-occupied with their domestic problems or deferred to the United States. As a consequence, on the eve of 11 September 2001 the United Nations Security Council remained an older, outmoded power configuration incapable of responding efficiently to the with novel challenges besetting it. Its relevance has been further questioned by the unilateral occupation of Iraq by the United States.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773526269

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9780773526266

Dialogues on the Practice of Fiscal Federalism

By: Raoul Blindenbacher

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Dialogues on the Practice of Fiscal Federalism

By: Raoul Blindenbacher

This booklet offers a snapshot of fiscal federalism in 12 federal democracies. It includes a glossary of country-specific terminology, serving as an entry point to a forthcoming book on the same theme. The booklet series is the fourth in a series created to provide accessible and comparative information on federal systems.

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077357333X

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Jalapeno Chiles, Mexican Americans and Other Hot Stuff

A Peoples' Cultural Identity

By: Raoul Lowery Contreras

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Jalapeno Chiles, Mexican Americans and Other Hot Stuff

A Peoples' Cultural Identity

By: Raoul Lowery Contreras

Controversy, passion, and a totally new viewpoint are what Raoul Lowery Contreras brought to more than 200 American newspapers in 1988 when Washington, D.C.'s Hispanic Link distributed his inaugural Op-Ed columns. Contreras is so controversial and passionate that his views draw pain, rage, attacks, complaints and compliments from myriad critics and friends. During a one hour radio program, he was called a "paid agent of the CIA," a "Sandinista Communist," a "traitor," a "patriot," a "criminal," a "sell-out," and, a "coconut," brown on the outside and white on the inside. That was just by his family. The essays and columns in this collection were distributed by Creator's Syndicate and the New York Times Syndicate's New American News Service and published throughout the United States in newspapers of all sizes, from weeklies to massive metropolitican dailies read by millions. There is a new paradigm of politics and issues in the United States, the Hispanic Paradigm, and Raoul Lowery Contreras has chronicled it for all to read, absorb and be affected by.

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iUniverse

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0595292569

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9780595292561

Profiling Hackers

The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking

By: Raoul Chiesa,Stefania Ducci,Silvio Ciappi

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Profiling Hackers

The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking

By: Raoul Chiesa,Stefania Ducci,Silvio Ciappi

Complex and controversial, hackers possess a wily, fascinating talent, the machinations of which are shrouded in secrecy. Providing in-depth exploration into this largely uncharted territory, Profiling Hackers: The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking offers insight into the hacking realm by telling attention-grabbing tales about bizarre characters that practice hacking as an art. Focusing on the relationship between technology and crime and drawn from the research conducted by the Hackers Profiling Project (HPP), this volume applies the behavioral science of criminal profiling to the world of internet predators. The authors reveal hidden aspects of the cyber-crime underground, answering questions such as: Who is a real hacker? What life does a hacker lead when not on-line? Is it possible to determine a hacker’s profile on the basis of his behavior or types of intrusion? What is the motive behind phishing, pharming, viruses, and worms? After gaining notoriety for breaking into many high-profile computer systems, the Italian hacker Raoul Chiesa turned to ethical hacking in 1995. Today he uses his skills and abilities to find ways to protect networks and computer systems. Stefania Ducci is a member of the Counter Human Trafficking and Emerging Crimes Unit at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Silvio Ciappi is a criminologist who lectures at the University of Pisa and studies criminal profiling. These three experts with vastly different backgrounds explore the clandestine network of cyber-criminals, providing an unparalleled glimpse into the secret lives of these malevolent individuals.

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CRC Press

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1841849979

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Rome and the Distant East

Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

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Rome and the Distant East

Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China

By: Raoul McLaughlin

Studies the complex system of trade exchanges and commerce that profoundly changed Roman society.

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A&C Black

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1847252354

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Rome and China

Points of Contact

By: Hyun Jin Kim,Samuel N.C. Lieu,Raoul McLaughlin

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Rome and China

Points of Contact

By: Hyun Jin Kim,Samuel N.C. Lieu,Raoul McLaughlin

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Book's by Raoul McLaughlin

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

Rome and the Distant East

Rome and the Distant East

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

Rome and China

Rome and China

Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era

Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era

Inauspicious Beginnings

Inauspicious Beginnings

Dialogues on the Practice of Fiscal Federalism

Dialogues on the Practice of Fiscal Federalism

Jalapeno Chiles, Mexican Americans and Other Hot Stuff

Jalapeno Chiles, Mexican Americans and Other Hot Stuff

Profiling Hackers

Profiling Hackers

Rome and the Distant East

Rome and the Distant East

Rome and China

Rome and China

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