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36%OFFPeter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - 9781408839973 - V9781408839973
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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Description for The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Hardback. Num Pages: 656 pages, 2 x 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1124.
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture - and is shaping the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408839973
SKU
V9781408839973
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About Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He took a First in History and was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, before completing his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He has lectured at leading universities all over the world, including ... Read more

Reviews for The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Brilliant and fearlessly wide-ranging ... undaunted by the complexity of the material, and the scale of the subject he has taken on, Frankopan marches briskly through the centuries, disguising his erudition with an enviable lightness of touch, enlivening his narrative with a beautifully constructed web of anecdotes and insights, backed up by an impressively wide-ranging scholarly apparatus of footnotes drawing ... Read more

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