Christopher Beckwith’s EMPIRES OF THE SILK ROAD: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present is starting to take off in the blogosphere. Nicholas Basbanes, the nationally syndicated columnist and book reviewer, recently added the book to “Nick’s Picks” on the blog FineBooksMagazine.com. Here is the review.

And Steve Dodson, who writers the LanguageHat.com blog, has become fascinated by the book’s arguments, and, perhaps not surprisingly, footnotes! He writes about the book on LanguageHat.com here and here.