The Silk Roads

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Peter Frankopan, an English academic at the University of Oxford.

For other uses, see Silk Road (disambiguation).
The Silk Roads
First edition book cover
AuthorPeter Frankopan
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction, history
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date
August 27, 2015
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook
Pages636
ISBN978-1-4088-3997-3
OCLC943517265

Author

Peter Frankopan is a historian at Worcester College, Oxford and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His areas of focus are the history of the Byzantine Empire, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Russia and the interdependence of Islam and Christianity. He has also studied Greek literature of the Middle Ages.[1]

Summary

The traditional view is that Western civilization descends from the Romans, who were in turn heir to the Greeks, who, in some accounts, were heirs to the Egyptians. Frankopan argues that the Persian Empire was the actual centre point of the rise of Western civilization.

Reception

Reviews on The Silk Roads were generally positive and were published by The Guardian,[2] The Independent,[3] The Telegraph,[4] The Times.[5] and The New York Review of Books.[6] In June 2016 The Silk Roads was chosen to be the Waterstones non-fiction book of the month.

See also

References
  1. Lofthouse, Richard. "Turning history on its head: Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads, on following the 'call of the east". oxfordtoday. 2015.
  2. Sattin, Anthony (2015). "The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan review – a frustrating trail". Theguardian.
  3. Irwin, Robert. "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan: All loud on the Eastern Front". Independent.
  4. Hughes, Bettany. "The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, review: 'charismatic'". Telegraph.
  5. Gerard DeGroot, Gerard. "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan".
  6. Thubron, Colin. "A Different Vision of History by Peter Frankopan, review".


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