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In China there are up to 25 million Muslims living in the country, representing over 1200 years of Chinese-Islamic relations. However, little is known about ...
2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book ...
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the ...
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced ...
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and ...
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.
In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a ...
A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it
China has conventionally been considered a land empire ...
The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In ...
'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times
'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple
Precariously positioned between China and ...
A comprehensive examination of Angkor's last 120 years. Over 180 unusual and little-known photographs. Accessible scholarly treatment of one of the world's most ...
The Golden Age of Travel neatly overlaps with the reign of the Emperor Meiji, which began in 1868 with the overthrow of a feudal order ...
How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the cliches of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells ...
The story of the hidden struggle waged by secret networks around the world to destroy European imperialism
The end of Europe's empires has so ...
'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of ...
"Excellent." The Economist
"A gripping account." South China Morning Post
"Well worth reading." The Morning Star
"A persuasive and readable narrative." History Today
"Elegantly written ...
