The Silk Road : A New History With Documents (9780190208929)

The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting. In The Silk Road: A New History with Documents, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionized our understanding of these trade routes. Hansen explores eight sites along the road, from
Xi'an to Samarkand, where merchants, envoys, pilgrims, and travelers mixed in cosmopolitan communities, tolerant of religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism.Designed for use in the
classroom and based on the award-winning trade edition (OUP, 2012), The Silk Road: A New History with Documents offers a selection of excerpted primary sources in each chapter. The wide-ranging sources include memoirs of medieval Chinese monks and modern explorers, letters written by women, descriptions of towns, legal contracts, religious hymns, and many others. A new final chapter provides coverage of the Silk Road during the period of Mongol rule.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 496 pages
• Dimensions 154.94 x 233.68 x 33.02mm | 880g
• Publication date 30 Jun 2016
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0190208929
• ISBN13 9780190208929
• Bestsellers rank 519,424

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