TY - BOOK AU - Frankopan, Peter TI - The Silk roads: new history of the world SN - 9781408883136 U1 - 909 PY - 2015/// CY - UK PB - Bloomsbury Publications N1 - 1 The Creation of the Silk Road 2 The Road of Faiths 3 The Road to a Christian East 4 The Road to Revolution 5 The Road to Concord 6 The Road of Furs 7 The Slave Road 8 The Road to Heaven 9 The Road to Hell 10 The Road of Death and Destruction 11 The Road of Gold 12 The Road of Silver 13 The Road to Northern Europe 14 The Road to Empire 15 The Road to Crisis 16 The Road to War 17 The Road of Black Gold 18 The Road to Compromise 19 The Wheat Road 20 The Road to Genocide 21 The Road of Cold Warfare 22 The American Silk Road 23 The Road of Superpower Rivalry 24 The Road to Catastrophe 25 The Road to Tragedy Conclusion: The New Silk Road Index N2 - For centuries, fame and fortune were 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 riches and adventure. Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture. The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires, determined the flow of ideas and goods and are now heralding a new dawn in international affairs ER -