02788nam a22004097a 4500 41371 BD-DhAAL 20230718121927.0 230718t2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng d 2015013264 9781101946336 9781101946329 (hardback) DLC eng DLC rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc 909 23 Frankopan, Peter. 55115 The Silk Roads : a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan. New York : Vintage Books, 2017. xix, 647 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Donated By Akbar Ali Khan 41371 World history. Trade routes History. 55116 East and West History. 3679 Imperialism History. Culture conflict History. 55117 Acculturation History. 55118 HISTORY / World. bisacsh 9180 HISTORY / Civilization. bisacsh 11656 TRAVEL / Asia / China. bisacsh 55119 Silk Road History. Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection ddc BK 45995 45995 0 0 ddc 0 909_000000000000000_FRA 1 74083 BRACUL BRACUL AAKC 2023-07-18 Donated By Akbar Ali Khan 0 909 FRA 3010041371 2023-07-18 1 2023-07-18 BK