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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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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Nehru's Bandung
Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9781911723189,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The history of an Indian vision for Asian peace, driven by the energy of Prime Minister Nehru and the pressures of the early Cold War.
This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India's Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Pri...
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40.00 GBP
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Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution
On Caste and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781911723233,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revolutionary alternative to the misleading spiritualised image of India, through anti-caste political thought.
In their brave and challenging book, grounded in political science and the Continental philosophical tradition, Divya Dwivedi and Sh...
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25.00 GBP
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Malevolent Republic
A Short History of the New India (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723288,
ISBN: HB: 9781787380059,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse country have snapped under...
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14.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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