The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert
Moore and Elleke Boehmer Peter Frankopan (Director of the Oxford
Centre for Byzantine Research, University of Oxford) discusses his
book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World with Averil Cameron
(Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, University
of Oxford) and Robert Moore (Emeritus Professor of History,
Newcastle University). The discussion is introduced and chaired by
Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World
Literature, English) *About the book* Peter Frankopan's book is a
major reassessment of world history, and is an important account of
the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political
renaissance in the re-emerging east. For centuries, fame and
fortune was 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 adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe
and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India,
is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and
culture – and is shaping the modern world. "The time is ripe for
this new history of the world, which places the emphasis firmly on
the east, from eastern Europe to India and China. A journey along
the Silk Road, from the birth of the world's ancient religions to
contemporary international politics." Daily Telegraph