Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 58244778
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781408839997
• ISBN-10: 1408839997
• Artikelnr.: 43609575

Autorenporträt

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, published by Bloomsbury in 2015, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top 10 for nine months after publication. It was named one of the 'Books of the Decade' 2010-2020 by the Sunday Times. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World was published by Bloomsbury in 2018 and won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation in 2019.

Rezensionen

The axis of history writing seemed to shift east with Frankopan's sweeping history, which placed the Silk Road at the very centre of world events Books of the Decade Sunday Times