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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 | |