"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and …
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"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. The Silk Roads vividly captures the importance of the networks that crisscrossed the spine of Asia and linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, the Mediterranean with India, America with the Persian Gulf. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the horrific world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orientating us eastwards, and illuminating how even the rise of the West 500 years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times"--
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The Silk Roads
645 pages
English language
Published 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-101-94632-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 916684394
The Silk Roads
Paperback
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-3998-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 919300411
The Silk Roads
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5476-0021-2Copied ISBN!
The Silk Roads
audio cd, 1 pages
Published by Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-6651-5079-8Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
128 pages
English language
Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-8993-0Copied ISBN!
The Silk Roads
audio cd, 1 pages
Published by Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-6651-5078-1Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
128 pages
English language
Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5266-2356-0Copied ISBN!
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-3999-7Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
English language
Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5266-0301-2Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
English language
Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-3996-6Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
English language
Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5266-0855-0Copied ISBN!
Silk Roads
English language
Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5266-0532-0Copied ISBN!
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