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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Ancient Asia | |
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| Ancient West Asia | |
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| The First Civilisation: Sumer | |
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| The Great Empires: Babylon, Assyria and Persia | |
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| Understanding the World: Religion and Myth | |
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| Endgame: Greco-Roman Europe Versus Persian Asia | |
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| Ancient South Asia | |
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| Asia's Second Civilisation: The Indus Valley | |
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| Epic India: The Aryan Invasion | |
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| The Buddhist Revolution: The Mauryan Empire | |
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| The Age of Invasion: From the Bactrians to the Huns | |
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| Ancient East Asia | |
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| The Cradle of the East: The Shang Dynasty | |
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| Classical China: The Zhou Dynasty | |
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| Imperial Unification: The Qin and Former Han Emperors | |
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| Imperial Crisis: The Failure of the Later Han | |
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| Ancient Central Asia | |
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| The Steppe: An Intercontinental Highway | |
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| Nomads: The Scourge of the Sown | |
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| The Spread of Buddhism: The First Pan-Asian Faith | |
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| The Great Raid: Attila the Hun | |
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| Medieval Asia | |
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| Medieval West Asia | |
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| Islam: The Second Pan-Asian Faith | |
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| The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates | |
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| The Coming of the Seljuks | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| Safavid Persia | |
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| The Ottoman Empire | |
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| Medieval South Asia | |
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| The Arrival of Islam | |
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| The Hindu and Buddhist Kingdoms | |
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| The Mughal Empire | |
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| European Rivalry | |
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| The British Triumph | |
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| Medieval East Asia | |
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| Tang and Song China | |
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| Confucian Korea | |
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| Feudal Japan | |
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| The Ming Revival | |
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| Medieval Central Asia | |
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| The Turks and the Qidans | |
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| The Tibetan Empire | |
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| The Mongol Empire | |
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| Tamerlane, the Sword of Islam | |
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| The Manchu Conquests | |
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| Medieval Southeast Asia | |
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| Independent Vietnam | |
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| The Khmer Empire | |
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| The Kingdoms of Burma | |
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| The Island Powers: Srivijaya, Mataram and Majapahit | |
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| The Slow Spread of Islam | |
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| The Advent of European Power | |
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| The Rise of the Thai | |
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| Modern Asia | |
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| Modern West Asia | |
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| The Fall of the Ottoman Empire | |
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| Between World Wars | |
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| The Founding of Israel | |
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| Syria, Lebanon and Jordan | |
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| Iraq versus Iran | |
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| Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States | |
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| Modern Turkey | |
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| Modern South Asia | |
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| The British Raj | |
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| The Indian Mutiny | |
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| The End of Company Rule | |
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| Gandhi and Indian Nationalism | |
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| Independence and Partition | |
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| Sri Lanka and Bangladesh | |
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| Modern East Asia | |
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| China's Humiliation | |
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| Japanese Imperialism | |
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| The People's Republic of China | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| The Rise of the Pacific Rim | |
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| Modern Central Asia | |
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| The Russian Advance | |
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| The Great Game | |
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| Afghanistan, the Land of Bones | |
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| Siberia and Mongolia | |
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| The Central Asian Republics | |
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| Modern Southeast Asia | |
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| The Dutch East Indies | |
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| The British Possessions | |
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| French Indochina and Thailand | |
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| The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | |
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| Post-War Decolonisation | |
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| The Republic of Indonesia | |
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| The Tragedy of Vietnam | |
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| Filipino Democracy | |
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| Postscript: The Rise of Present-Day Asia | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |