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Dr peter frankopan the silk roads questioning the eurocentric view of history
The Silk Roads: A New History of The World is a 2015 book written by Peter Frankopan, an academic at the University of Oxford.
Contents
The silk roads a new history of the world
Author
Peter Frankopan is a historian and dominant researcher at Worcester College. Also he directs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies about the history of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and interdependence of Islam and Christianity. He has expert knowledge in Greek literature of Middle Ages.
Summary
The traditional view is that Western civilization descends from the Romans, who were in turn heir to the Greeks, who, in some accounts, were heirs to the Egyptians. Frankopan argues that the Persian empire was the center point of the rise of humanity.
Reception
Reviews on The Silk Roads were published by The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times. and The New York Review of Books. In June 2016 The Silk Roads was chosen to be the Waterstones non-fiction book of the month.