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Những con đường tơ lụa – Một lịch sử mới về thế giới
“Những Con đường Tơ lụa này có vai trò là hệ thần kinh trung ương của thế giới, kết nối các dân tộc và địa điểm với nhau, nhưng nằm dưới lớp da, mắt thường không nhìn thấy được. Giống như môn giải phẫu học giải thích cơ thể vận hành ra sao, hiểu được những kết nối này cho phép chúng ta hiểu được thế giới vận hành ra sao. Dẫu vậy, bất chấp tầm quan trọng của khu vực này trên thế giới, nó đã bị lãng quên trong lịch sử chủ lưu. Một phần nguyên do là điều vẫn được gọi là “Đông phương luận” – một quan điểm trịch thượng và hết sức tiêu cực về phương Đông, coi đó như một vùng kém phát triển và thấp kém hơn so với phương Tây, bởi thế không đáng để nghiên cứu nghiêm túc.
Nhưng nó cũng có nguyên do từ thực tế là câu chuyện quá khứ đã bị ngự trị và được xác lập vững chắc tới mức không còn chỗ cho một vùng đất từ lâu đã bị coi là bên lề câu chuyện về sự vươn lên của châu Âu và xã hội phương Tây.” – Peter Frankopan.
Nhưng nó cũng có nguyên do từ thực tế là câu chuyện quá khứ đã bị ngự trị và được xác lập vững chắc tới mức không còn chỗ cho một vùng đất từ lâu đã bị coi là bên lề câu chuyện về sự vươn lên của châu Âu và xã hội phương Tây.” – Peter Frankopan.
858 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
About the author
Peter Frankopan
34 books1,650 followersPeter Frankopan studied History at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was Foundation Scholar, Schiff Scholar and won the History Prize in 1993, when he took an outstanding first class degree. He did his D.Phil (Ph.D) at Corpus Christi College, where he was elected to a Senior Scholarship before moving to Worcester College as Junior Research Fellow in 1997. He has been Senior Research Fellow since 2000 and is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Royal Asiatic Society.
Peter has held visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard) and Princeton, and has lectured at universities all over the world including Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NYU, Notre Dame, King's London and The Institute of Historical Research. He writes regularly for the national and international press about current affairs and about how history helps to explain the present. His work has been translated into twelve languages.
Peter chairs a collection of family businesses in the UK, France, Croatia and the Netherlands, including A Curious Group of Hotels which he set up with his wife Jessica in 1999.
He is actively involved with several charities, mainly in the areas of education, international development, gender studies and classical music. Both he and Jessica are Companions of the Guild of Benefactors at Cambridge University. He has been a Governor of Wellington College since 2006.
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has awarded more than a hundred scholarships and awards to outstanding young scholars from Croatia to study at leading academic institutions in the UK, USA and Europe.
A chorister at Westminster Cathedral as a boy, music scholar at school and choral scholar at Cambridge, he is an accomplished musician and has recorded many albums as a singer and instrumentalist.
A keen sportsman, Peter won blues at both Oxford and Cambridge for minor sports, and represented Croatia internationally at cricket. He plays for the Authors CC, a team of writers whose members has included PG Wodehouse and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In recent years, the team has toured India and Sri Lanka, and played against the Pope's 1st XI - St Peter's CC - in England and in Rome.
In the summer of 2013, Bloomsbury published The Authors XI. A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon. It was as one of The Guardian's Books the year, and was one of Hilary Mantel's Books of the Year in the Observer.
Peter has held visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard) and Princeton, and has lectured at universities all over the world including Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NYU, Notre Dame, King's London and The Institute of Historical Research. He writes regularly for the national and international press about current affairs and about how history helps to explain the present. His work has been translated into twelve languages.
Peter chairs a collection of family businesses in the UK, France, Croatia and the Netherlands, including A Curious Group of Hotels which he set up with his wife Jessica in 1999.
He is actively involved with several charities, mainly in the areas of education, international development, gender studies and classical music. Both he and Jessica are Companions of the Guild of Benefactors at Cambridge University. He has been a Governor of Wellington College since 2006.
He chairs the Frankopan Fund, which has awarded more than a hundred scholarships and awards to outstanding young scholars from Croatia to study at leading academic institutions in the UK, USA and Europe.
A chorister at Westminster Cathedral as a boy, music scholar at school and choral scholar at Cambridge, he is an accomplished musician and has recorded many albums as a singer and instrumentalist.
A keen sportsman, Peter won blues at both Oxford and Cambridge for minor sports, and represented Croatia internationally at cricket. He plays for the Authors CC, a team of writers whose members has included PG Wodehouse and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In recent years, the team has toured India and Sri Lanka, and played against the Pope's 1st XI - St Peter's CC - in England and in Rome.
In the summer of 2013, Bloomsbury published The Authors XI. A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon. It was as one of The Guardian's Books the year, and was one of Hilary Mantel's Books of the Year in the Observer.
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