{"product_id":"the-silk-roads-a-new-history-of-the-world","title":"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won - and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Silk Roads are rising again. A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political renaissance in the re-emerging east.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher‏: ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (\u003cspan\u003e1 Jun 2016\u003c\/span\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage‏: ‎ English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"pagination\"\u003e736\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e pages\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781408839997\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions‏: ‎ \u003cspan\u003e197 x 130 x 42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecm\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55545309757816,"sku":"709788","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/8799\/9298\/files\/the-silk-roads.jpg?v=1777891701","url":"https:\/\/shop.royalarmouries.org\/products\/the-silk-roads-a-new-history-of-the-world","provider":"Royal Armouries Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}