THE GOLDEN ROAD ; HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD

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For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn''t the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India''s major cultural exports - religion, art, technology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, language and literature - were shaping civilisations, travelling as far as Afghanistan in the West and Japan in the East.

Out of India came pioneering merchants, astronomers and astrologers, scientists and mathematicians, surgeons and sculptors, as well as holy men, monks and missionaries. In The Golden Road, legendary historian William Dalrymple highlights India''s oft-forgotten position as a crucial economic and civilisational hub at the heart of the ancient and early medieval history of Eurasia.

From Angkor to Ayutthaya, The Golden Road traces the cultural flow of Indian religions, languages, artistic and architectural forms and mathematics throughout the world. In this groundbreaking tome, Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to reinstate India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of ancient Asia.


  • Auteur(s)

    William Dalrymple

  • Éditeur

    Bloomsbury

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    31/08/2024

  • EAN

    9781408864425

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    482 Pages

  • Longueur

    23.4 cm

  • Largeur

    15.4 cm

  • Épaisseur

    3.9 cm

  • Poids

    720 g

  • Support principal

    Grand format

William Dalrymple

Historien et journaliste écossais, William Dalrymple parcourt l'Orient depuis une vingtaine d'années. Spécialisé dans la littérature de voyage, il est l'auteur de six livres parmi lesquels Le Moghol Blanc (Noir sur Blanc, 2005) qui a remporté, entre autres, le prestigieux Wolfson Prize for History. La Cité des Djinns (Noir sur Blanc, 2006) a reçu le Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. William Dalrymple est membre de la Royal Society of Literature et de la Royal Asiatic Society. Il vit avec sa femme et leurs trois enfants entre l'Écosse, Londres et New Delhi.

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