Category Archives: ASIAN / MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

This work traces the history of Jerusalem from the prehistoric era, the Biblical period, Jerusalem under the Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans, British, Jordanians and the Israelis. It examines its political and cultural role through history, its personalities, art, architecture and conflicts.Author … Continue reading →

Accommodating Pakistan and Bangladesh and other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam, this text examines the legacy of the 1947 partition, and looks at the colonial era from the overal context of Indian history.Author : … Continue reading →

One of the “dormant accounts” held in a Swiss bank is not that of a Jewish victim of the Holocaust, but that of Duleep Singh, last Emperor of the Sikhs, who was forced – as a nine-year-old – to sign … Continue reading →

This text examines China’s history through proverbs. The majority of these are drawn from the first century BC – the time of the first emperor – but their importance has survived into modern times.Author : A Thousand Pieces of Gold … Continue reading →

An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist.Author : China by John KeayPublished by : HarperCollins … Continue reading →