title: Transport Technologies and Infrastructure in the Premodern Era
abstract: Transport technologies and infrastructures constituted thematerial components of networks that enabled historical processes of mobilitysuch as migration and trade.Routes werethe most durable spatial expression of such networks;togetherwith citiesasimportant nodes-with their ports, warehouses, taverns, guesthouses, etc.-they constituted their own kind of infrastructural assemblages, and it is they that form thet hematic focus of this chapter.I nt his way, the diffuse information on transport infr