LSE lit fest 2016 book review: the silk roads: a new history of the world by Peter Frankopan

Evans, Lee (2016) LSE lit fest 2016 book review: the silk roads: a new history of the world by Peter Frankopan. LSE Review of Books (25 Feb 2016). Website.

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In The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan seeks to counter the Eurocentric tendency to see globalisation solely as a process of Western expansion by providing a comprehensive history of intellectual, physical and commercial exchange across The Silk Roads of Persia. Although the book does not quite live up to its ambition to present an overall history of the world due to its neglect of wider histories of the East, Lee Evans nonetheless praises the detail, zeal and passion that characterise Frankopan’s account.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2016 17:14
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 00:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65765

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