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Connectivity in antiquity; globalization as a long-term historical process.

The authors of these articles have found evidence that the globalization process has its roots deep in the past, in the "space of flows" in antiquity when the Eastern Mediterranean developed metallurgy, while West Syrian societies experienced dynamic growth in the fourth and third millennia BCE, and in the volatility of trade. They examine the cognitive side of globalization in the Hajj of the mediaeval and modern eras, and in the connectivity of the Transjordan during the Persian period. They also look to the antiquity's power of identity in Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean world, in modern residence identities, and in New Kingdom Egypt. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Medieval towns; the archaeology of British towns in their European setting. (reprint, 2003)

Citing discoveries by archaeological teams over the past three decades in some of the towns of medieval Britain, Schofield, curator of archaeology at the Museum of London, and archaeological consultant Vince ask what went on in medieval towns, how the rich and poor lived, what nourished them, what they died of, how the weather was and the quality of life, and what restrictions or special pleasures there were to living in towns. They emphasize not what was particular to Britain, but what British towns shared with those across Europe. The illustrations have been enhanced from the 2003 cloth edition published by Continuum. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)