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Fabian, Lara et al. (Eds.): Economies of the Edge: Frontier Zone Processes at Regional, Imperial, and Global Scales (300 BCE–300 CE), Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1582

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09/25/2025

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Lara Fabian (Ed.), Kathrin Leese-Messing (Ed.), Eli J.S. Weaverdyck (Ed.), Lauren Morris (Ed.), Mamta Dwivedi (Ed.)

Economies of the Edge

Frontier Zone Processes at Regional, Imperial, and Global Scales (300 BCE–300 CE)

This volume offers a new perspective on trans-Eurasian connectivity between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It focuses on border regions as key sites of economic interaction and transformation. Beyond classic center-periphery models and static notions of ‘Silk Road’ routes, the contributions examine how imperial expansion, regional political economies and decentralised trade networks shaped long-distance trade. Archaeological, textual and numismatic case studies reveal border regions as dynamic spaces of innovation, negotiation and interregional entanglements.

Lara Fabian (UCLA), Kathrin Leese-Messing (Freiburg), Eli J. S. Weaverdyck, Lauren Morris (Charles University) and Mamta Dwivedi (KIT) worked at the University of Freiburg from 2017 to 2023 as part of the ERC project ‘Beyond the Silk Road: Economic Development, Frontier Zones, and Inter-Imperiality in the Afro-Eurasian World Region (300 BCE to 300 CE),’ led by Sitta von Reden, and jointly published the three-volume Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies.

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Title
i-iv
Table of Contents
v-vi
Lara Fabian, Kathrin Leese-Messing, Eli J.S. Weaverdyck, Lauren Morris, Mamta Dwivedi
Acknowledgments
vii
Eli J.S. Weaverdyck, Mamta Dwivedi
Introduction
1-11
Part 1: Peripheries and Frontiers
13
Maxim Korolkov
Early Sinitic Empires and the Frontier Zone: Economy in Southern East Asia
15-44
Luca M. Olivieri
Double-crop Pocket Zones and Empires: The Case of Swat
45-80
Michael A. Speidel
Economic and Military Aspects of Roman Provincialization: The Case of Roman Arabia
81-99
Part 2: Nodes and Flows
101
Sören W. Stark
Between Desert and Oasis: Border Markets and their Place in Economic Networks in Southwestern Central Asia
103-120
Federico De Romanis
Notes on Barygaza’s Trade: Commodities and Coins at an Asian Crossroads
121-143
Stefan R. Hauser
The Arsacid Center of Trade: Charax Spasinou, Capital of Mesene
145-173
Rocco Palermo
Landscapes of Interaction(s): The Archaeology of Borderland and Economy in Roman Mesopotamia
175-203
Mark Altaweel, Andrea Squitieri
Population Movement, Labor, and Wages in the Age of Universal Empires in the Near East
205-231
Miguel John Versluys
Network Power: Intensification and Innovation in Western Afro-Eurasia during the Hellenistic–Roman Era
233-269
About the Authors
271

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