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Author:

Hansen, Valerie, 1958-

Title:

The Silk Road : a new history / Valerie Hansen.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 304 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Silk Road--History.
Silk Road--History--Sources.
Silk Road--Description and travel.
Silk Road--History, Local.
Historic sites--Silk Road.
Trade routes--Asia--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

At the crossroads of Central Asia : the Kingdom of Kroraina -- Gateway to the languages of the Silk Road : Kucha and the caves of Kizil -- Midway between China and Iran : Turfan -- Homeland of the Sogdians, the Silk Road traders : Samarkand and Sogdiana -- The cosmopolitan terminus of the Silk Road : historic Chang'an, modern-day Xi'an -- The time capsule of Silk Road history : The Dunhuang caves -- Entryway into Xinjiang for Buddhism and Islam : Khotan -- The history of the overland routes through Central Asia.

ISBN:

0195159314 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780195159318 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)757838314

LCCN:

2011041804

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