The Silk Roads : a new history of the world. /Peter Frankopan.

The creation of the Silk Road
The road of faiths
The road to a Christian east
The road to revolution
The road to Concord
The road of furs
The slave road
The road to heaven
The road to hell
The road of death and destruction
The road of gold
The road of silver
The road to northern Europe
The road to empire
The road to crisis
The road to war
The road of black gold
The road to compromise
The wheat road
The road to genocide
The road of cold warfare
The American silk road
The road of superpower rivalry
The road to catastrophe
The road to tragedy
Conclusion: The new silk road

"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. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the horrific world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orientating us eastwards, and illuminating how even the rise of the West 500 years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times"