The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
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Lu par :
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Laurence Kennedy
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Peter Frankopan
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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 westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that 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 center stage in international politics, commerce, and culture - and is shaping the modern world. This region, the true center 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 reemerging East.
©2015 Peter Frankopan (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
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- mikus
- 06/09/2022
Much more than just silk roads
This is an incredible piece, that consistently presents the historical events in context of the whole world and not the western civilisations as many of us are used to do and which will be shocking to many.
Not only it draws the history of the nations and countries along the silk roads - and, pretty much everything important happens around there, but it also nicely introduces modern times, and shows how consequences of actions centuries ago still affect us, and how did we get to where we are now. Those last chapters possibly being the most important of all, although potentially more biased.
The tone is very neutral, feels reliable and honest, and the selection of facts, names and dates is just about right. Conclusions are clear and logical.
I believe it should be an obligatory position for anyone interested in internatonal relations, current politics and general history and geography. At the same time this 24h marathon of history will be unfortunately too much for many, and it's easy to stop paying attention when listening for too long. Also as usually with such audiobooks, it's sad how little we can remember later from such books, just listening to them once.
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