Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, in 2015..."--Title page verso.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9781101912379
• ISBN-10: 1101912375
• Artikelnr.: 45331262

Autorenporträt

PETER FRANKOPAN is a historian based at Oxford University. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, a major monograph about Byzantium, Islam and the West in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He is a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. His revised translation of The Alexiad was published in the United States in 2009.

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

Brilliant and fearlessly wide-ranging … undaunted by the complexity of the material, and the scale of the subject he has taken on, Frankopan marches briskly through the centuries, disguising his erudition with an enviable lightness of touch, enlivening his narrative with a beautifully constructed web of anecdotes and insights, backed up by an impressively wide-ranging scholarly apparatus of footnotes drawing on works in multiple languages … This is history on a grand scale, with a sweep and ambition that is rare … a remarkable book on many levels, a proper historical epic of dazzling range and achievement