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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By Peter FrankopanFrom $20.00 USD
Peter Frankopan retells world history with Central Asia and the trade routes at its center rather than Europe. The result reframes how religions, goods, wealth and disease moved across continents for two thousand years. A sweeping, much-praised corrective to Europe-first history.
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📄 672 pages⏱ ~6 hr read📅 2017
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Peter Frankopan retells world history with Central Asia and the trade routes at its center rather than Europe. The result reframes how religions, goods, wealth and disease moved across continents for two thousand years. A sweeping, much-praised corrective to Europe-first history.
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