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(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Ramachandra Guha
ISBN: 9781035014729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The definitive history of modern India in a new third edition, featuring extensive new material, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
(Paperback, Hardback)
By: Michael Pembroke
ISBN: 9781743793930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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The Korean peninsula has had a troubled history but nothing quite compares with the tragedy of its American-inspired division in the twentieth century. Korea tells the story of the peninsula with compassion for the people of the North and South, understanding and insight for the role of China and concern about the past and present role of the United States.
(Paperback)
By: Jeevan Vasagar
ISBN: 9781408713594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the definitive book on Singapore - and one of the great city chronicles.
By: Jessica Harrison-Hall
ISBN: 9780714124834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Meet emperors and empresses, soldiers and salesmen, princes and potters: a visual feat that captures the flavour of the remarkable Ming dynasty.
(Hardback)
By: Jennifer Harris
ISBN: 9781921668203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Art Gallery of South Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Romulus Hillsborough
ISBN: 9780804850698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it as well as those who fought against it in this exploration of Samurai history.
(, Special ed.)
By: Luce Boulnois
ISBN: 9789622177215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Odyssey Publications,Hong Kong
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The Silk Road conjures up images of romance and mystery. This illustrated history of the trade connections that linked the Mediterranean world with China is a must for those interested in the Silk Road as a travel destination and for those who love adventure.
(Paperback)
By: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9781529349269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.
(Paperback)
By: Frank Diktter
ISBN: 9781408856529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Thant Myint-U
ISBN: 9781786497901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy.
(Hardback)
By: Eric Enno Tamm
ISBN: 9781582437347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Chronicling his retracing of the route taken through China in 1906 by Baron Gustaf Mannerhein, who was charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on China's Qing Dynasty, Tamm delivers a tale of espionage, the Silk Road, and the rise of modern China.
(Paperback)
By: Stewart Ross
ISBN: 9781399818339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A clearsighted, balanced and authoritative explanation of the world's most tragic ongoing conflict, updated for 2024
(Hardback)
By: Edvard Vasilievich Rtveladze
ISBN: 9781785513732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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This title is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia.
(Hardback)
By: Francis Robinson
ISBN: 9780500251348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Presenting a series of biographical portraits, this book forms a reign-by-reign record of the sultans, shahs, emperors and khans who all shared the Muslim persianate high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to India from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
(Paperback)
By: Frank Diktter
ISBN: 9781408886359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.
(Paperback, Export/Airside)
By: John Simpson
ISBN: 9781408851920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: John Simpson
ISBN: 9781408851913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Alexandra Green
ISBN: 9780714124957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: British Museum Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jessica Harrison-Hall
ISBN: 9780500519707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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The history of China brilliantly told and brought vividly to life through 7,000 years of objects from fine art to the everyday.
(Hardback)
By: T. Richard Blurton
ISBN: 9780500480649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500298251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2025
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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This concise history tells India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day, with a new preface and postscript.
(Hardback)
By: Rachel Peat
ISBN: 9781909741683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2020
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
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(Paperback)
By: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN: 9784805308738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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Lafcadio Hearn is one of the best-known Westerners to ever make Japan his home
(Paperback)
By: Edgar Knobloch
ISBN: 9789622177857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Odyssey Publications,Hong Kong
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Traditionally, the History of Russia has been interpreted from the European standpoint, and has more often than not been based on European sources and methods. Here, the author takes a different approach to the history of Russia. He charts the influences and traditions of the Eastern civilisations in Russian history.
