How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia

ISBN-13: 9781107546714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Andrew Phillips

Opis

The epic story of how Mughal, Manchu and English East India Company 'barbarians' laid the foundations for today's Asian superpowers.

Recenzje

'A provocative read … Highly recommended.' Q. E. Wang, Choice Connect

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won; 2. The Eurasian transformation; 3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires; 4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia; 5. The great Asian divergence – Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century; 6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820; 7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.