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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION'A comparative study of great subtlety and intelligence'SpectatorIn this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares ...
'Madras School of Orientalism' (MSO) refers to a school of scholarship emanating from certain intellectual projects of early nineteenth century south India. This book explores ...
In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now ...
Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly ...
Tiny, frail and beautiful, it is hard to believe the hardships endured by 37-year-old Shoko Tendo. But the dragon tattoo that peeks from her sleeve ...
Recognised as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in the light of new scholarship. New ...
A mesmerizing portrait of the Indian subcontinent by one of Britain's finest historians
In The Story of India, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative ...
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of ...
Sri Lanka-an island nation located in the Indian Ocean- has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has a ...
This new biography, part of Longman's World Biography series, of the Chinese explorer Zheng He sheds new light on one of the most important ...
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the ...
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment ...
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in the lonely passes and ...
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by ...
