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The Silk Roads : (Record no. 91956)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 18720620
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 150728s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408883136
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency PK-LaUMT
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 909
Edition number 23
Item number FRA-S
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Frankopan, Peter
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Silk Roads :
Remainder of title a new history of the world /
Statement of responsibility, etc Peter Frankopan
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bloomsbury,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 636 p. :
Other physical details illustrations (some color), maps ;
Dimensions 24 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World history.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Trade routes
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element East and West
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Imperialism
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Culture conflict
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Acculturation
General subdivision History.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element HISTORY / World.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element HISTORY / Civilization.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element TRAVEL / Asia / China.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
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