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.
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.
發表於2024-09-27
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16世紀之前的世界曆史實際上是一部亞歐大陸的曆史。從地理學上講,亞歐大陸占有世界陸地的40%,囊括世界人口的90%,是麵積最大、最重要的大陸闆塊。亞歐大陸也是人類最早、最先進的文明發源地,構成瞭世界曆史的“中心地帶”。與那些完全孤立或半孤立的文明不同,通過貿易、戰...
評分 評分《絲綢之路》真的是一本讓我愛恨交加的書。 我第一次看到這本書的時候,哇,好厚啊,這肯定得看到明年瞭,這是我對《絲綢之路》的第一印象。當我真正捧起它,開始仔細閱讀的時候,我先是把封麵好好研究瞭一番,藍色的主體背景配上幾何圖形,用四個黃色的大字書寫“絲綢...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 曆史 絲綢之路 SilkRoad 英文原版 culture 經濟學 History English
Interesting perspective.
評分真的很大一本啊,這個齣版社還齣瞭兩本類似拍版的作品,中文還沒有翻譯齣來,都很不錯。
評分其實主要是歐洲跟東方互通的曆史。不過寫得挺好看。
評分the basic principle has remained the same: goods and ideas have flowed through the Silk Roads and, consequently, the desire to control them has shaped the course of history and the world of today.
評分終於看完瞭,看過的第三本通史,側重於中東地區,因為國傢太多,也隻是淺嘗輒止,很努力的抨擊西歐國傢的帝國主義,站隊到東方國傢。
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