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Valerie Hansen - The Silk Road: A New History - 9780190218423 - V9780190218423
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The Silk Road: A New History

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Description for The Silk Road: A New History Paperback. .
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For centuries, key records remained hidden-sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping. But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190218423
SKU
V9780190218423
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About Valerie Hansen
Valerie Hansen is Professor of History at Yale University. Her books include The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400, Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276, and, with Kenneth R. Curtis, Voyages in World History. To find out more about Valerie Hansen and The Silk Road, visit ... Read more

Reviews for The Silk Road: A New History
Richly illustrated, The Silk Road: A New History is a monumental work of synthesis... It is a celebration of the drudgery of sifting ancient trash, of the painstaking work of recovering multilingual documents found in fragments, clumps, and, at the Mogao Caves, one great bibliographical hoard... Whether in Sogdian, Khotanese, Kuchean, or Uighur languages that make the discoveries of early ... Read more

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