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The Silk Roads a new history of the world

"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...

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Main Author: Frankopan, Peter
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
World history.
Silk Road > History.
Trade routes > History.
East and West > History.
Imperialism > History.
Culture conflict > History.
Acculturation > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The creation of the silk road
  • The road of faiths
  • The road to a Christian East
  • The road to revolution
  • The road to concord
  • The road of furs
  • The slave road
  • The road to heaven
  • The road to hell
  • The road of death and destruction
  • The road of gold
  • The road of silver
  • The road to Northern Europe
  • The road to empire
  • The road to crisis
  • The road to war
  • The road of black gold
  • The road to compromise
  • The wheat road
  • The road to genocide
  • The road of cold warfare
  • The American silk road
  • The road of superpower rivalry
  • The road to catastrophe
  • The road to tragedy
  • Conclusion: The new silk road.

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