Silk Roads
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
656
Utgivningsdatum
2016-06-01
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensioner
196 x 128 x 40 mm
Vikt
480 g
ISBN
9781408839997

Silk Roads

A New History of the World

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-06-01
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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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  1. Storslaget, med några få brister
    Dag V, 4 november 2016

    En storslagen genomgång av världshistorien och hur inflytande från öst och väst har påverkat historiens gång. Den invändning jag har är att Frankopan har en för mekanistisk världsåskådning, dvs han förklarar utvecklingen beroende av yttre materiella faktorer men lägger allt för liten vikt vid idéers utveckling och deras konsekvenser.
    Här är utdrag av en engelsk recension jag publicerade på Amazon:
    Peter Frankopan gives us an amazingly broad description of the history of the world and ... Läs hela recensionen

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Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. 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 Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, King's College London and the Institute of Historical Research. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The First Crusade was published in 2012.