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By: S. Frederick Starr
ISBN: 9780691165851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic,
(Hardback)
By: Arunabh Ghosh
ISBN: 9780691179476
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2014, titled Making it count: statistics and state-society relations in the early People's Republic of China, 1949-1959.
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By: Arunabh Ghosh
ISBN: 9780691199719
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Mark Kerr-Smiley
ISBN: 9781916846760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2025
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Dillon
ISBN: 9781838606701
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: William Dalrymple
ISBN: 9781408878194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India
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By: Clare Hammond
ISBN: 9780241623893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Chun Han Wong
ISBN: 9781472158512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From one of the most respected reporters on China today, a vital new account of the political education of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of China whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.
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By: Chun Han Wong
ISBN: 9781472158505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From one of the most respected reporters on China today, a vital new account of the political education of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of China whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.
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By: Mark Peaker
ISBN: 9781914414787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Clements
ISBN: 9781761380280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Ramachandra Guha
ISBN: 9780008498801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A narrative of startling originality As discussions of Britains colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR
Fascinating and provocative LITERARY REVIEW
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By: Joya Chatterji
ISBN: 9781529925555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Pembroke
ISBN: 9781761451980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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Silk Silver Opium tells the dramatic story of trade between China and the West and how it changed the world.
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By: Michael D. Barr
ISBN: 9781350185661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 14th edition)
By: Milton Osborne
ISBN: 9781761470943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.
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By: Ian Johnson
ISBN: 9780141997957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Amy Stanley
ISBN: 9781784708139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change
'Compelling...
(Hardback, 0th New edition)
By: Antony Cummins
ISBN: 9781786786050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2022
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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This is the book on bushido, the much-cited but widely misrepresented samurai code of honour. Drawing on authentic historical texts, it is a detailed and accurate exploration of medieval life in Japan and the samurai, a must-have for anyone with a love of martial arts or Japanese history.
(Paperback)
By: James Bradley
ISBN: 9780316196680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Paperback)
By: Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
ISBN: 9781800961517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The powerful and inspiring diary of a doctor who survived the atomic bomb and treated the people of Hiroshima only 1500m from the centre of the blast.
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By: Michael Sheridan
ISBN: 9780008356231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Sheridan
ISBN: 9780008356262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Hopkirk
ISBN: 9780719564475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2006
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game' Jan Morris
