The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce

by Vadime Elisseeff

Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims. The notion of movement is therefore central to an understanding of the relations between peoples; it is also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571812210
• ISBN13: 9781571812216
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"