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"Excellent." The Economist
"A gripping account." South China Morning Post
"Well worth reading." The Morning Star
"A persuasive and readable narrative." History Today
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Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals
Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long ...
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a ...
Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honour. And by this courage and for this honour they fought to the ...
Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and ...
In 1990, the Malaysian state of Johor - along with Singapore and the Indonesian island of Batam - launched the Growth Triangle to attract foreign direct investment ...
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains
This is the first major history ...
A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia
"A richly detailed study that goes a long ...
Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation ...
An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text ...
'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] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national ...
Explore the long and rich history of China's great dynasties.
From the clans ...
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah ...
The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it ...
