China and Russia
Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
ISBN: PB: 9780300281118,
ISBN: HB: 9780300166651,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
632 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 38 colour illus., 6 maps
632 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 38 colour illus., 6 maps
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship...
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14.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
ISBN: HB: 9780300278521,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 30 colour illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 30 colour illus.
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership – and the profound influence she had on India.
Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon emerged as one of the most powerful political leaders o...
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25.00 GBP
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City of Kashmir
Srinagar: A Popular History
ISBN: HB: 9781911723769,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
A vibrant tapestry of Srinagar's rich historical and cultural heritage.
"City of Kashmir" offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In explo...
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30.00 GBP
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Rise and Fall of the EAST
How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
ISBN: PB: 9780300281934,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023
The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance.
Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST...
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14.99 GBP
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India and China at Odds in the Asian Century
A Diplomatic and Strategic History
ISBN: HB: 9781805260622,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A high-level insider's account of how China and India are locked in an ongoing struggle for supremacy in Asia.
The term "Asian century" was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap f...
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35.00 GBP
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Heaven Does Not Block All Roads
A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao
ISBN: HB: 9781911723622,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hundred-year history of the challenges and triumphs of contemporary Taiwan, through the inspiring true story of one man who lived through it all.
Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he...
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25.00 GBP
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Great Transformation
China's Road from Revolution to Reform
ISBN: HB: 9780300267082,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history.
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary pe...
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30.00 GBP
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Great Reversal
Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
ISBN: HB: 9780300272925,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 5 maps
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 5 maps
A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present.
The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, wh...
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25.00 GBP
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Korea
A New History of South and North
ISBN: PB: 9780300278705,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 30 colour illus., 3 maps
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 30 colour illus., 3 maps
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Korea has a long, riveting history – it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a wor...
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11.99 GBP
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India's Near East
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9781805260615,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revealing new history of India's faltering attempts to exert control over its eastern hinterland and the neighbouring states of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the "Northeast" –...
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35.00 GBP
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