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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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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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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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
ISBN: HB: 9780300251128,
Yale University Press,
December 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire.
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China...
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35.00 GBP
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han
ISBN: SET: 9780300270525,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
1644 pp., 21,8x29,4 cm, 209 colour and black&white illus.
1644 pp., 21,8x29,4 cm, 209 colour and black&white illus.
The two volumes of James Tod's "Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han", first published in 1829-1832, remain to this day the first port of call for anyone interested in the history and culture of Rajasthan and the early colonial encounter in India. Wr...
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850.00 GBP
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Victorious in Defeat
The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780300260205,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
736 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
736 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures.
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,...
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30.00 GBP
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Artful Subversion
Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making
ISBN: HB: 9780300263435,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 82 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 82 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascinati...
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40.00 GBP
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