When Asia Was the World - Hardcover

Gordon, Stewart

 
9780306815560: When Asia Was the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0306815567 ISBN 13: 9780306815560
Verlag: Da Capo Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from A.D. 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers-the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science, and culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stewart Gordon is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of three books on Asia. He lives in Ann Arbor.

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Verlag
Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0306815567
ISBN 13 
9780306815560
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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