Silk Roads : A New History of the World – Hardcover

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia and Rome itself to the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work illuminates how the Silk Roads‰ÛÓthe crossroads of the world, the meeting place of East and West‰ÛÓperhaps more than anything else, shaped global history over the past two millennia.