TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Frankopan 
AU  - Peter Frankopan 
TI  -  The silk roads : a new history of the world
SN  - 9781681680538, 168168053X
U1  - 909 FRA 2016
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbmy
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Acculturation
Acculturation History
Asia Silk Road
Audiobooks
Conflit culturel Histoire
Culture conflict
Culture conflict History
Downloadable Audiobooks
Downloadable audio books
East and West
East and West History
HISTORY / Reference
HISTORY Reference
Histoire universelle
History
Imperialism
Imperialism History
Impérialisme Histoire
Livres audio
Route de la soie Histoire
Routes commerciales Histoire
Silk Road History
Trade routes
Trade routes History
World history
N2  - It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures, and religions, and it was the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the emergence of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols, the transmission of the Black Death, the struggles of the Great Game, and the fall of Communism--the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orienting us eastward, and illuminating how even the rise of the West five hundred years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control of 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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