title: The Silk Road in World History (New Oxford World History)
author:  Xinru Liu 
description: <br />"A welcome addition to the New Oxford World History series...Any general reader interested in silk or textiles will enjoy this book, but so too will one who is captivated by any other aspect of the Silk Road, for it provides a quick but fascinating historical narrative. As a textbook for a world history class, its appeal lies not only in the romance of the Silk Road but also in its use of material culture to write world history by connecting economic and political activities with the religious values of various traditions."--<em>Journal of Asian Studies</em>
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  Liang Emlyn Yang , Hans-Rudolf Bork , Xiuqi Fang and Steffen Mischke
  
  Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
  
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  Editors
  
  Liang Emlyn Yang
  
  Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Christian-Albrechts-
  Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  
  Hans-Rudolf Bork
  
  Institut für Ökosystemforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel,
  Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  
  Xiuqi Fang
  
  Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  
  Steffen Mischke
  
  Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
  
  ISBN 978-3-030-00727-0 e-ISBN 978-3-030-00728-7
  
  <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7>
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960206
  
  This book is an open access publication.
  
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