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Name: The Silk Roads
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Author: Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan’s *The Silk Roads* explores the central role of the vast trade and cultural networks that spanned Asia, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific and the Mediterranean with India and the Middle East. Tracing the period from the first Mesopotamian cities through the rise of Greece and Rome, the Mongol conquests, the Black Death, the Great Game, and the fall of communism, the book shows how the fortunes of the West have always been intertwined with the East. Frankopan argues that the modern West’s rise was as much a product of its efforts to reach and control these Eurasian trading routes as of any internal development. By re‑orienting history eastward, the work offers a fresh perspective on contemporary global events dominated by Asia and the Middle East.

First publish date: 2001

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Peter Frankopan

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