Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, in 2015..."--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9781101912379
• ISBN-10: 1101912375
• Artikelnr.: 45331262

Autorenporträt

PETER FRANKOPAN is a historian based at Oxford University. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, a major monograph about Byzantium, Islam and the West in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He is a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. His revised translation of The Alexiad was published in the United States in 2009.

Rezensionen

The axis of history writing seemed to shift east with Frankopan's sweeping history, which placed the Silk Road at the very centre of world events Books of the Decade Sunday Times

‘Magisterial’