Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Civilizations takes the reader forward from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes prom

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.