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The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) is regarded as Chinas golden age, equivalent in British history to the Elizabethan era. Through the themes of people and places ...
A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia
To many in the West, the name Cambodia ...
Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast ...
The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of ...
By the end of the 1960s the process of decolonization had practically run its course in Southeast Asia. One exception, however, was tiny Portuguese Timor ...
During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered the entire Indian subcontinent reaching the borders ...
Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates ...
A brave British widow goes to Siam and-by dint of her principled and indomitable character-inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this ...
A History of Southeast Asia is a sweeping as well as a wide-ranging narrative of Southeast Asia's historical development told through key individuals and ...
Mitter puts China at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War - a conflict that continues profoundly to shape China's view of ...
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern ...