The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan, 2015
657 pages
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽✔ One of the best world history books
✔ Interesting and detailed history that reads like a great novel
✔ Rejects to be eurocentric
★★★★★+♥️ This got me interested in history. How the Middle East had a wonderful history and traditions, and how Europe has always been greedy. Frankopan is so serious that it's funny.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
An epic.
This got me interested in history, a lot more than before, it has that charm, it doesn't just give you knowledge, it is entertaining.
It is a book about the whole history of the silk roads (plural, because it's not just one road) but surprisingly it's not boring, it is very entertaining and exciting as a book, like a big intertwined story.
It illustrates the magnificent and rich history of the Middle East, and how greedy Europe has been using the religion as an excuse, and how Europe faded and in came the US, the new Empire, with its selfish democracy as their weapon.
And after reading this, you know why the Middle East being rich is not a new thing, it's not merely the quick money as the West wants to portrait it.
They have a looong history, long and rich.
Maybe it's just the end of the European and American empires, and could be just the return of the Silk Roads.
English reviews, ENG_Asia, ENG_History, ENG_Immigration, ENG_Imperialism, ENG_Politics, ENG_Religion
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Le vie della seta. Una nuova storia del mondo (Italiano)
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