EAN: 9781408839997

THE SILK ROADS - PETER FRANKOPAN KARTONIERT (TB)

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely  the direction in which the world
spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis 
it now turns to the 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 modern world. This region  the true centre of the
earth  is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself
began  where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic
series of connections  but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them
flowed ideas  goods  disease and death. This was where empires were won - and where they were
lost. As a new era emerges  the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have
criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again. A major reassessment of
world history  The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global
economy and the political renaissance in the re-emerging east.

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