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Title

The silk roads : a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan.

Author

Frankopan, Peter

Publication

London : Bloomsbury, 2015.

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Description

xix, 636 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture - and is shaping the modern world. This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won - and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again. A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political renaissance in the re-emerging east.

Alternative Title

New history of the world

Subject

• World history
• Trade routes > Asia
• Trade routes
• Weltgeschichte
• Kulturkontakt
• Världshistoria
• Handelsvägar
• Sidenvägen > historia
• Silk Road
• Asia
• Asia > Silk Road
• Seidenstraße

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-617) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The creation of the silk road -- The road of faiths -- The road to a Christian East -- The road to revolution -- The road to concord -- The road of furs -- The slave road -- The road to heaven -- The road to hell -- The road of death and destruction -- The road of gold -- The road of silver -- The road to Northern Europe -- The road to empire -- The road to crisis -- The road to war -- The road of black gold -- The road to compromise -- The wheat road -- The road to genocide -- The road of cold warfare -- The American silk road -- The road of superpower rivalry -- The road to catastrophe -- The road to tragedy -- Conclusion: The new silk road.

ISBN

• 9781408839973
• 1408839970
• 9781408839980
• 1408839989
• 9781408839966 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

919300411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library