TY - BOOK ID - 17562633 TI - Sogdian traders : a history AU - La Vaissière, Étienne de AU - Ward, James PY - 2005 VL - 10 SN - 9004142525 9786610907007 1429452749 9047406990 1280907002 1433705230 9781429452748 9781433705236 9789004142527 PB - Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Sogdians KW - Merchants KW - Sogdiens KW - Commerçants KW - Commerce. KW - History. KW - Commerce KW - Histoire KW - Silk Road. KW - Asia, Central KW - Route de la soie KW - Asie centrale KW - Businesspeople KW - Sogdy KW - Ethnology KW - Silk Route KW - Central Asia KW - Soviet Central Asia KW - Tūrān KW - Turkestan KW - West Turkestan KW - Asia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17562633 AB - The Sogdian Traders were the main go-between of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. From their towns of Samarkand, Bukhara, or Tashkent, their diaspora is attested by texts, inscriptions or archaeology in all the major countries of Asia (India, China, Iran, Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium). This survey for the first time brings together all the data on their trade, from the beginning, a small-scale trade in the first century BC up to its end in the tenth century. It should interest all the specialists of Ancient and Medieval Asia (including specialists of Sinology, Islamic Studies, Iranology, Turkology and Indology) but also specialists of Medieval Economic History. ER -