The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Description

Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is an ambitious and sweeping endeavor that undertakes to redefine world history in the context of the Silk Roads, the ancient trade routes that connected East to West. Published in 2015, the work undertakes the task of dismantling the Eurocentric view of how historical narratives have been constructed and seeks to enlarge the horizons of global history.
Title: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Author: Peter Frankopan – a historian, director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.

Genre/Category: History, World History, Cultural Studies.

Core Idea:

Frankopan believes that the Silk Roads were not merely lines or routes that followed; rather, they were crucial paths for cultural, political and economic exchange and represented the contours and arteries that shored up development on one continent and another. He further insists that this is the approach that would eventually help us to understand human history.