Sea of Silk BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing Peter Blanck

Peter Blanck

This unique historical account of ruling class robbery and poor peoples’ resistance offers answers to key questions about the history of capitalism

during a run along Europe’s tallest cliff

Gaggi takes his argument to an entirely new level

and culturally sensitive survey items

Sea of Silk BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing Peter BlanckThe story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic histories that chart the exchange of silk along Asian and Mediterranean trade routes to medieval literary depictions of silk, a strikingly different