Silk roads: a new history of the world/ Peter Frankopan

1.The creation of the silk road--
2.The road of faiths--
3.The road to a christian east--
4.the road to revolution--
5.The road to concord --
6.The road of furs--
7.The slave road--
8.The road to hell--
9.the road to heaven--
10.The road of death and destruction--
11.The road of gold--
12.the road of silver--
13.The road to Northern Europe --
14.The road to empire--
15.The road to crisis--
16.The road to war--
17.The road of black gold--
18.The road to compromise--
19.The wheat road--
20.The road to genocide--
21.The road of cold warfare.

Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. The Silk Roads vividly captures the importance of the networks that crisscrossed the spine of Asia and linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, the Mediterranean with India, America with the Persian Gulf.