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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty ...
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...
Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major ...
On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural ...
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Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning ...
The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the ...
The events of 1976 convulsed China- Mao died, the Gang of Four fell, hundreds of thousands perished in the Tangshan earthquake. Ragnar Baldursson, an idealistic ...
The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into ...
The existence of two Chinese states-one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan-is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the ...
While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines ...
The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the ...
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 provides a unique insight into the diversity of life in China during the last imperial dynasty. Through the lives ...
