The New Silk Road or Belt and Road Initiative corresponds to an enormous international infrastructure investment program launched and largely financed by the People's Republic of China and providing for the construction/modernization of port, road, railroad, pipeline, energy and communications...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it illustrates the repeated economic heydays of the Silk Road, during which it linked the Orient and...

Zentralasien und die Seidenstraße: Definitionen und Merkmale? -- Von den Anfängen bis zur Entstehung der Seidenstraße -- Von barbarischen Invasionen bis zum Türkischen Reich, dem ersten transkontinentalen Nomadenstaat (ca. 350 - 700 n. Chr.) -- Vom Fortschritt überrollt: Vom relativen...