A superb account of how European imperialism in Asia was undermined by a network of ingenious radicals, who used printing presses, global travel and the colonisers’ languages to spread their ideas. Their hubs were cities such as Batavia, Canton, Calcutta and Singapore. Prof Harper conjures a world of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, assassinations and conspiracies that are a novelist’s envy.
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
(author)
£35.00
Edition:Hardback978184614562929/10/2020
Categories: 02. Books for Christmas 2020: History, Books for Christmas 2020, History
Tags: Asia, Europe, European history, Far East, Revolution, South Asia
From a Bookshelf nearby
-
-
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Paperback £10.99 -
Life along the Silk Road: Second Edition
Paperback £24.00 -
Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascina... read more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Hardback £25.00