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Mar. 8th, 2011 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsThe Silk Road in World History is a book that I read first in draft form when I was in high school, and a friend who had a flatteringly biased good opinion of my grammatical skills asked me to do a first read on his mother's manuscript.
I have no idea if my nascent sixteen-year-old editorial talents were useful in any way, but my friend and his mom were nice enough to save a copy for me anyway when it finally came out the other end of the publishing process. It was exciting reading the final version! And interesting in terms of subject matter, too. The book traces the history of the trade routes between China, India and the Middle East, and the influence the various exchanges of goods had on the cultures along the way. It's a pretty compressed history - the whole thing is less than two hundred pages, and there's a lot of time to cover in that span - but as an academic overview, it's great.
Also, the introductory pages inform me that it's part of a series of textbooks that appear to be dedicated to talking about world history in a way that's comprehensive and not from a European or American perspective! EXCITING and something that is, uh, often all too hugely lacking, so.
(IN OTHER NEWS, today I am very dignified and my attention span is fantastic. YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT. The plan is to go dancing tonight! I feel this is sufficiently celebratory. Then if I am not dead on my feet I will indulge in alcoholic apple juice and watch kdrama, ALSO CELEBRATORY.)
I have no idea if my nascent sixteen-year-old editorial talents were useful in any way, but my friend and his mom were nice enough to save a copy for me anyway when it finally came out the other end of the publishing process. It was exciting reading the final version! And interesting in terms of subject matter, too. The book traces the history of the trade routes between China, India and the Middle East, and the influence the various exchanges of goods had on the cultures along the way. It's a pretty compressed history - the whole thing is less than two hundred pages, and there's a lot of time to cover in that span - but as an academic overview, it's great.
Also, the introductory pages inform me that it's part of a series of textbooks that appear to be dedicated to talking about world history in a way that's comprehensive and not from a European or American perspective! EXCITING and something that is, uh, often all too hugely lacking, so.
(IN OTHER NEWS, today I am very dignified and my attention span is fantastic. YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT. The plan is to go dancing tonight! I feel this is sufficiently celebratory. Then if I am not dead on my feet I will indulge in alcoholic apple juice and watch kdrama, ALSO CELEBRATORY.)
