MAcmILLAN DISTRIBUTION (MDL) - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book, 656 Pages, Peter Frankopan Freeoffer

Key Features:

• 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. ‘Magnificent’ Sunday Times ‘Immensely entertaining ... so ambitious, so detailed, so fascinating'
• The Times For centuries, fame and fortune were 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 riches and adventure.
• Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture.
• A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires,
• It determined the flow of ideas and goods and are now heralding a new dawn in international affairs.
• Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University

Product Description 

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.

Specifications:

Brand - MACMILLAN DISTRIBUTION (MDL)

Title - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Type - Read and Learn

Number of Pages - 656

Language - English

Format - Paper back

Author - Peter Frankopan

Publishing Date - 15 June 2016

Publisher -  Bloomsbury Paperbacks

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1 Book