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Mar 7, 2017 · 4.5 8,724 ratings. Editors' pick Best History. See all formats and editions. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next.
Mar 23, 2020 · The best books on the Silk Road, recommended by Yale historian Valerie Hansen, the foremost expert on the subject and author of The Silk Road: a New History.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford.
Aug 1, 2015 · In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For centuries, key records remained hidden--sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping.
Jan 1, 2015 · From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. 636 pages, Hardcover.
Jan 8, 2019 · Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage at its heart – the journey along the Silk Roads.
Sep 28, 2018 · Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage at its heart – the journey along the Silk Roads.
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging 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.
Dec 31, 2014 · The Silk Road: A History - Irene M. Franck & David M. Brownstone. Traces the development of commerce between China and the Western world, tells the stories of Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, and Attila the Hun, and discusses the reasons for the route's decline.
Mar 7, 2017 · Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and ...
