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008			150728s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781408883136
040			_cPK-LaUMT
082	0	0	_a909 _223 _bFRA-S
100	1		_aFrankopan, Peter
245	1	4	_aThe Silk Roads : _ba new history of the world / _cPeter Frankopan
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury, _c2015
300			_a636 p. : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
520	2		_a"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	_aWorld history.
650		0	_aTrade routes _xHistory.
650		0	_aEast and West _xHistory.
650		0	_aImperialism _xHistory.
650		0	_aCulture conflict _xHistory.
650		0	_aAcculturation _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / World.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Civilization.
650		7	_aTRAVEL / Asia / China.
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