The Silk Roads Book Summary By Peter Frankopan A New History of the World

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Were you under the impression that the Silk Road was just a trade route? Or a ‘belt’ around the world? The history of the Silk Road is a condensed version of world history. The historical journeys of countries don't happen in isolation – but are instead all inextricably linked to the Silk ‘Roads’. The book’s author redefines world history from the perspective of the Silk Road. By reading this book, you will discover that the Silk Road not only encompasses the history of humans, but also determines the future of the world.

The book’s author, Peter Frankopan, is a renowned British historian and Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research . He has also held the position of visiting Fellowships at Harvard and Princeton . He has attracted considerable attention from mainstream academic historians around the world because he has a talent for analyzing the anatomy of the contemporary world from a perspective that differs from European history.