· The Silk Roads, A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan. Skip to main content A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. The Silk Roads, A New History Of The World Peter Frankopan Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to bltadwin.ru Interaction Count: K. Peter Frankopan is a historian based at Oxford University. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East and The Silk Roads. He is a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University/5(K). 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 South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent bltadwin.ru by: 8.
November sees the publication of T he New Silk Roads - The Present and Future of the World. Once, all roads lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing. Peter Frankopan looks at the present and the future and describes how a new world is forming across the spine of Asia, linking China, Russia, Iran, the Middle East with Central South Asia. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. 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. ★ 12/21/ Upending the traditional narrative of Western enlightenment and world domination as the inevitable descendants of Greek and Roman intellectual ferment, Oxford historian Frankopan (The First Crusade) places the silk roads—the long, remote Central Asian trading routes linking Europe and China—at the center of human history.
Because of the genuinely global sweep of Chinese investment, Frankopan’s “new Silk Road” is often less an account of what’s happening in the heartland itself than it is a chronicle of the. preconceptions and see the world from a new--and ultimately hopeful--perspective. The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan - 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. The Silk Roads is an ambitious project with an incomparable sense of depth, scope, and range that challenges the Eurocentrism of mainstream history and strives to introduce a more balanced view of the past.
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