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A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia India, Pakistan, Bangladesh ...
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 ...
A brief and thrilling introduction to Japan from one of the country's leading British historians
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The story of a hotel. The story of a nation.
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An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
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The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
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The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover
British Hong Kong ended in ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
