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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
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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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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 ...
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'
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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 ...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...
Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look ...
A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historians
In this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country ...
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history- the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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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 ...
