Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process

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List of Contributors
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
	Emerging State Connectivity: Dynamic Urban and Economic Growth in Fourth and Third Millennium BCE West Syrian Societies
	Trade Pulsations, Collapse and Reorientation in the Ancient World
Section Two: Cognitive Globalization in History
Introduction to Section Two
	The Globalizing Effects of \'Hajj\' in the Medieval and Modern Eras
	Connectivity: Transjordan during the Persian Period
	Organic Globalization and Socialization
Section Three: Antiquity and the Power of Identity
Introduction to Section Three
	Connectivity in the Longue Durée: Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean World
	Perceptions of Antiquity and the Formation of Modern Resistance Identities
	Foreign Self and Familiar Other: The Impact of \'Global\' Connectivity on New Kingdom Egypt
	Nothing New Under the Sun ?
Index