The Silk Roads

PETER FRANKOPAN is an Oxford University historian. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, a classic book on the eleventh and twelve centuries in Byzantium, Islam, and the West. He is a senior research fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and the director of Oxford University's Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. In 2009, his revised translation of The Alexiad was published in the United States.

Among the best books on cultural history, The Silk Roads is far more than a history of the Silk Roads; it is a revelatory new history of the globe, promising to unsettle ideas about where we came from and where we are going next. The huge territory reaching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrown into the global spotlight in recent years, from the Middle East and its political turmoil to China and its economic rise. Frankopan reminds us that in order to comprehend what is at stake for the towns and kingdoms formed along these intricate trade routes, we must first comprehend their incredible histories.

Frankopan realigns our worldview, pointing us eastward. East and West initially met on the Silk Roads through trade and conquest, resulting in the spread of ideas, cultures, and faiths. The Silk Roads demonstrates how the fate of the West has always been closely linked to the East, from the rise and collapse of empires to the expansion of Buddhism and the arrival of Christianity and Islam, all the way up to the great wars of the twentieth century.

Author: Peter Frankopan

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