Introduction: ancient network societies?
The space of flows in antiquity
Grand narratives, technological revolutions and the past : deep-time studies of metallurgy and social evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean / T.E. Levy
Emerging state connectivity : dynamic urban and economic growth in third millennium BCE West Syrian societies / William Collins
Trade pulsations, collapse, and reorientation in the ancient world / William R. Thompson
The globalizing effects of hajj in the medieval and modern eras / Bethany J. Walker
Connectivity : TransJordan during the Persian period / Paul J. Ray, Jr
Organic globalization and socialization of civilization / Sheldon Lee Gosline
Connectivity in the Longue Duree : hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean world / Leif Manger
Perceptions of antiquity and the formation of modern resistance identities
Sandra Arnold Scham
Foreign self and familiar other : the impact of global connectivity on New Kingdom and Ramesside Egypt / Jenny Cashman
Nothing new under the sun? / Manuel Castells.