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The Silk Road : a new history / Valerie Hansen.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Valerie, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trade routes.
- History.
- Historic sites.
- Silk Road--History.
- Silk Road.
- Silk Road--History--Sources.
- Silk Road--Description and travel.
- Silk Road--History, Local.
- Historic sites--Silk Road.
- Trade routes--Asia, Central--History.
- Trade routes--Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Central Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-290) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hansen, Valerie, 1958- Silk Road.
- ISBN:
- 9780199978601
- 0199978603
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613888983
- 99958963783
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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