The Silk Roads
Subtitle: a new history of the world
By: Peter Frankopan
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 645
ISBN-13: 9781101946329
Subjects: East and West; HISTORY / World; Trade routes; Acculturation; TRAVEL / Asia / China; Imperialism; Culture conflict; World history; HISTORY / Civilization; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on Transliteration
pagenum: xi; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; label: 1
title: The Creation of the Silk Road
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Road of Faiths
pagenum: 28; label: 3
title: The Road to a Christian East
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: The Road to Revolution
pagenum: 62; label: 5
title: The Road to Concord
pagenum: 77; label: 6
title: The Road of Furs
pagenum: 99; label: 7
title: The Slave Road
pagenum: 114; label: 8
title: The Road to Heaven
pagenum: 132; label: 9
title: The Road to Hell
pagenum: 154; label: 10
title: The Road of Death and Destruction
pagenum: 171; label: 11
title: The Road of Gold
pagenum: 197; label: 12
title: The Road of Silver
pagenum: 214; label: 13
title: The Road to Northern Europe
pagenum: 236; label: 14
title: The Road to Empire
pagenum: 256; label: 15
title: The Road to Crisis
pagenum: 271; label: 16
title: The Road to War
pagenum: 284; label: 17
title: The Road of Black Gold
pagenum: 311; label: 18
title: The Road to Compromise
pagenum: 330; label: 19
title: The Wheat Road
pagenum: 345; label: 20
title: The Road to Genocide
pagenum: 364; label: 21
title: The Road of Cold Warfare
pagenum: 385; label: 22
title: The American Silk Road
pagenum: 405; label: 23
title: The Road of Superpower Rivalry
pagenum: 423; label: 24
title: The Road to Catastrophe
pagenum: 442; label: 25
title: The Road to Tragedy
pagenum: 472; title: Conclusion: The New Silk Road
pagenum: 492; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 505; title: Notes
pagenum: 509; title: Index
pagenum: 625