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The Silk Roads: Questioning the Eurocentric View of History

The Silk Roads: Questioning the Eurocentric View of History

Lecture by Peter Frankopan

Given at Liverpool John Moores University on February 22, 2016

Dr Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. During this lecture he will talk about his best selling book The Silk Roads.

Peter works on the history of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and on relations between Christianity and Islam. He also specialises in medieval Greek literature, and translated The Alexiad for Penguin Classics (2009).

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Peter often writes for the international press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and has contributed to many TV and Radio documentaries. His new book is entitled The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.

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