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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east.

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture - and is shaping the modern world.

This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won - and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.

A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political renaissance in the re-emerging east.

Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He took a First in History and was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, before completing his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He has lectured at leading universities all over the world, including Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, King's College London and the Institute of Historical Research. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The First Crusade was published in 2012.

1 The Creation of the Silk Road
2 The Road of Faiths
3 The Road to a Christian East
4 The Road to Revolution
5 The Road to Concord
6 The Road of Furs
7 The Slave Road
8 The Road to Heaven
9 The Road to Hell
10 The Road of Death and Destruction
11 The Road of Gold
12 The Road of Silver
13 The Road to Northern Europe
14 The Road to Empire
15 The Road to Crisis
16 The Road to War
17 The Road of Black Gold
18 The Road to Compromise
19 The Wheat Road
20 The Road to Genocide
21 The Road of Cold Warfare
22 The American Silk Road
23 The Road of Superpower Rivalry
24 The Road to Catastrophe
25 The Road to Tragedy
Conclusion: The New Silk Road
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
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