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The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices ...
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'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN
'Remarkable ... The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic' GUARDIAN
'This book is ...
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the ...
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A revolutionary ...
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'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama
'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a ...
An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
'A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today
'This is a ...
The story of a hotel. The story of a nation.
When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream ...
A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context from antiquity to today
Much of world history is Indian ...
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became ...
A riveting account of a turbulent period in Chinese history.In 1966, with the words 'Bombard the Headquarters!' Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force ...
The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle - and the looming threat of invasion by ...
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018.
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
"Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes ...
