{"product_id":"the-silk-roads-a-new-history-of-the-world-9781681680521","title":"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the rise and fall of empires in China  Persia  and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and advent of Christianity and Islam  right up to Western imperialism and the great wars of the twentieth century  this epic  magisterial work illuminates how the Silk Roads-the crossroads of the world  the meeting place of East and West-perhaps more than anything else  shaped global history over the past two millennia. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest  leading to the spread of ideas  cultures  and religions  and it was the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the emergence of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols  the transmission of the Black Death  the struggles of the Great Game  and the fall of Communism  the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the world wars of the twentieth century  Peter Frankopan realigns the world  orienting us eastward  and illuminating how even the rise of the West five hundred years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control of these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet  where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the worlds attention  this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924572889141,"sku":"ByrdShop_1681680521","price":334.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781681680521.jpg?v=1787677102","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-silk-roads-a-new-history-of-the-world-9781681680521","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}