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010			_a 2015013264
020			_a9781101946336
020			_a9781101946329 (hardback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC _dBD-DhAAL
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100	1		_aFrankopan, Peter. _955115
245	1	4	_aThe Silk Roads : _ba new history of the world / _cPeter Frankopan.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c2017.
300			_axix, 647 pages : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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. _955116
650		0	_aEast and West _xHistory. _93679
650		0	_aImperialism _xHistory.
650		0	_aCulture conflict _xHistory. _955117
650		0	_aAcculturation _xHistory. _955118
650		7	_aHISTORY / World. _2bisacsh _99180
650		7	_aHISTORY / Civilization. _2bisacsh _911656
650		7	_aTRAVEL / Asia / China. _2bisacsh _955119
651		0	_aSilk Road _xHistory.
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cAkbar Ali Khan Collection
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c45995 _d45995