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The Silk Road in world history / Xinru Liu.

By: Liu, Xinru
Series: The new Oxford world historyPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: x, 154 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195161748 (hc.); 0195161742 (hc.); 9780195338102 (pbk.); 0195338103 (pbk.)Subject(s): Trade routes -- Eurasia -- History | Cultural relations | Silk Road -- History | Silk Road -- Civilization | Eurasia -- Commerce -- History | Asia, Central -- History | Asia, Central -- CivilizationDDC classification: 950.1 LOC classification: DS33.1 | .L58 2010
Contents:
China looks west -- Rome looks east -- The Kushan empire and Buddhism -- A golden age emerges -- Transforming the Eurasian silk market -- The Mongols and the twilight of the Silk Road.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-138) and index.

China looks west -- Rome looks east -- The Kushan empire and Buddhism -- A golden age emerges -- Transforming the Eurasian silk market -- The Mongols and the twilight of the Silk Road.