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China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major ...
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all ...
Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans - oppressive authorities, extreme altitude, harsh climate - have ...
The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And ...
For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had ...
From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through its pivotal events ...
KINGS OF SHANGHAI tells the story of two Jewish families - the Sassoons and the Kadoories - who immigrated to China in the mid nineteenth century and ...
'Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernisation.' The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher ...
In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of ...
This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A startling work - awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." - Business Week
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Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals- a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely ...
Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but ...
For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good ...
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to ...
