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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A startling work -- awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." - Business Week
"Magnificent. . . . everything ...
This classic, clear-eyed account', writes renowned historian Bill Gammage, is the most comprehensive record of first contact anywhere in the world'.
Middle Kingdom chronicles the ...
Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one ...
Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution ...
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times-a period of unprecedented economic growth ...
Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother ...
The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian)
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever ...
This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world ...
For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain's East India Company ruled enclaves of land ...
Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century ...
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of ...
