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  • The Pioneer Kingdoms of Macedon and Qin

    A Triumph of the Periphery

    by Jordan Thomas Christopher ...
    Series series Antiquity in Global Context
    The Pioneer Kingdoms of Macedon and Qin critically compares the cultures of Ancient Greece and Early China in the first millennium BC through following the histories of two of its peripheral cases: Argead Macedon and Qin. Emerging from being fringe states to producing Alexander the Great and the First Emperor of China, then rapidly collapsing, these polities had a unique parallel historical ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

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  • The Story of China

    The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

    by Michael Wood ...
    A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today.Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.After a century and a half of foreign ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Great Wall

    China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000

    by Julia Lovell ...
    A "gripping, colorful" history of China's Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day ( Publishers Weekly).Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the "barbarians" at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    An authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history.**"Exquisitely written." —**GuardianMany nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past.Keay's ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Early Chinese Empires

    Qin and Han

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 1 - History of Imperial China
    In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.The Qin and Han constitute the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Macedonia and the Macedonians

    A History

    by Andrew Rossos ...
    Series series Studies of Nationalities
    Throughout history, every power that has aspired to dominate the Balkans, a crucial crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa, has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia has figured prominently in history, its name was largely absent from the historical stage, representing only a disputed territory of indeterminate boundaries, until the nineteenth century. Successive invaders— Roman ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors

    by Frances Wood ...
    This biography of the ancient Chinese ruler delves into his life and times, chronicling his immortal achievements and reconsidering his legacy.Unifier or destroyer, lawmaker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258–210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A History of China

    by Wolfram Eberhard ...
    There are indeed enough Histories of China already: why yet another one? Because the time has come for new departures; because we need to clear away the false notions with which the general public is constantly being fed by one author after another; because from time to time syntheses become necessary for the presentation of the stage reached by research. Histories of China fall, with few ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China’s Cosmopolitan Empire

    The Tang Dynasty

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 3 - History of Imperial China
    The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Immobile Empire

    by Alain Peyrefitte ...
    In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors

    Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800

    by Jonathan Karam Skaff ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD