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The Silk Road - Connecting Histories and Futures (Hardcover)
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The Silk Road - Connecting Histories and Futures (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
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From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and
political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and
poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly
becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of
the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century
the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by
nationalism and its invented pasts, and a world dominated by
conflict and Cold War standoffs. In The Silk Road, Tim Winter
reveals the different paths this history of connected cultures took
towards global fame, a century after the first evidence of contact
between China and Europe was unearthed. He also reveals how this
remarkably popular depiction of the past took hold as a platform
for geopolitical ambition, a celebration of peace and cosmopolitan
harmony, and created dreams of exploration and grand adventure.
Winter further explores themes that reappear today as China seeks
to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century. Known across
the globe, the Silk Road is a concept fit for the modern world, and
yet its significance and origins remain poorly understood and are
the subject of much confusion. Pathbreaking in its analysis, this
book presents an entirely new reading of this increasingly
important concept, one that is likely to remain at the center of
world affairs for decades to come.
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