Friday, 30 August 2013

Tabriz on the Silk Roads




Official Journal of The Asian Association of World Historians
Published by The Institute of World and Global History.


Asian Review of World Histories
, a peer-reviewed journal, publishes original research articles and book reviews to advance research, teaching, and public discussion on world historical studies in or for the Asian region. It also seek participation of those who identify themselves as 'global', 'world', 'transregional', 'comparative', 'international', and 'big' historians, and all others with interest in 'connected' study of the past. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations and collaboration of historians with scholars in adjoining disciplines including and with global historical scholars in all parts of the world.



ISSN 2287-9811(Online)
ISSN 2287-965X(Print)  

The Asian Review of World Histories
Volume 1 ∙ Number 2 ∙ JULY 2013

Official Journal of the Asian Association of World Historians Published by the Institute of World and Global History

Contents

Articles
169 Tabriz on the Silk Roads: Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Cultural Connections
Roxann PRAZNIAK


Tabriz on the Silk Roads: Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Cultural Connections
Roxann PRAZNIAK, University of Oregon Oregon, United States prazniak@uoregon.edu

Tabriz under Mongol Ilkhanate rule commanded a global reach in the thir- teenth-century Afro-Eurasian world. Tabriz functioned during this period not only as a commercial emporium and diplomatic center but as a seat of innova- tive artistic and intellectual activity. Consideration of Tabriz as a world histor- ical city offers insight into the economic and social dynamics that shaped a critical passage in Eurasia's history including regions of the Mediterranean and East Asian zones. 

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189 Teleology, Discontinuity and World History: Periodization and Some Creation Myths of Modernity Kenneth POMERANZ

227 Power Pursuits: Interstate Systems in Asia Ravi Arvind PALAT

265 The Iwakura Embassy and British Industrial Cities Young-Suk LEE

Review Article
295 The Indian Ocean: Historians Writing History Rila MUKHERJEE 

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