The Silk Roads

Name: The Silk Roads
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Author: Peter Frankopan

A New History of the World

CA$330

The Silk Roads is Peter Frankopan’s revolutionary world history told from the perspective of the East: a beautiful, illustrated Folio edition of an international bestseller.

The Silk Roads

CA$330

Book Details

Production DetailsBound in printed and blocked cloth
Blocked slipcase
Two-volume set

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¾ inches

FontSet in Cardo with Hello Paris Serif as display

Pages 768 pages

AuthorPeter Frankopan

Illustration64 pages of separate colour and black & white images in total
9 maps
Black-and-white chapter decorations

Publication Date12/09/2023

Editor's Notes

In this revelatory book, Peter Frankopan makes the case for a major re-evaluation of world history – one focused not on Europe but on central Asia, where East meets West. In The Silk Roads, the zone between the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Himalayas emerges as a birthplace of civilisations, empires and religions. From here, the ancient routes of the title – ‘the world’s central nervous system’ – spread not only trade, but scientific knowledge, slaves, disease and marauding armies. Frankopan shows how the Silk Roads brought about a profoundly interconnected world, where ripples created by events in Baghdad could be felt in Scandinavia. And he shows the region’s global significance is rising again, in a time when China’s Belt and Road Initiative is creating new Silk Roads with a global reach. Frankopan brings the narrative up to date in a new introduction to this Folio edition, which includes a superb range of photography: 64 full pages, from paintings and ancient artefacts to modern architecture and photojournalism. A number-one bestseller, The Silk Roads sets out a compelling alternative to familiar Western narratives on global history.

An edition signed by Peter Frankopan is also available.

About the Author

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King's College, Cambridge. His books include The First Crusade: The Call from the East (2012); The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015; Folio 2023), The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (2018) and The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023). He is President of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographic Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He works on global geopolitics, on trade and exchange networks in the past and present, on climate and the environment and on the militarisation of space.

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