
Published online:
17 February 2022
Published in print:
10 March 2022
Online ISBN:
9780197605097
Print ISBN:
9780197605059
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The Rush for Manuscripts The Rush for Manuscripts
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Writing Grand Histories in the Aftermath of War and Revolution Writing Grand Histories in the Aftermath of War and Revolution
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Cite
Winter, Tim, 'Frontiers of Antiquity', The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures (New York , 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 17 Feb. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605059.003.0003, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
Here the book turns to the scholar explorers who traveled across Central Asia in search of artifacts and evidence of historical settlement in the decades running up to World War I. The chapter argues that interpretations of the region’s history were in part shaped by the geopolitical circumstances of the period, namely the Great Game. Today, the Silk Road is commonly depicted as an apolitical history of transmission and dialogue between East and West, Asia and Europe, but we learn here that below the surface lie ideas about the geographical reach of civilizations and claims about the “roots” of modern European and Asian societies.
Keywords:
Silk Road, archaeology, Central Asia, Great Game, civilization, material culture, philology
Collection:
Oxford Scholarship Online
The Silk Road. Tim Winter, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197605059.003.0003
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