Trade
Elisseef, Vadine. The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.
Isidore, and Wilfred H. Schoff. Parthian stations / y Isidore of Charax ; an account of the overland trade route between the Levant and India in the first century B.C. ; the Greek text, with a translation and commentary by Wilfred H. Schoff. Chicago: Ares, 1989.
La Vaissière, Étienne de. Sogdian Traders: A History. Trans. James Ward. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
La Vaissière, Étienne de, and Éric Trombert, eds. Les Sogdiens en Chine. Études Thématiques17. Paris: École francaise d’Extrême-Orient, 2005.
Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and Ancient China : Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
———. Silk and Religion: An Exploration of the Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600–1200. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
McLaughlin, Raoul. Rome and the Distant East Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China. Continuum, 2010.
Nathan, Gary. Cumin, Camels and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Wang, Helen. Money on the Silk Road: The evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. A.D. 800: with a Catalogue of the Coins collected by Sir Aurel Stein. London: British Museum, 2004.