From the Ruins of Empire

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Re-tells the history of the past 2 centuries from an Asian point of view, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an Asian renaissance. An impassioned response to authors like Niall Ferguson and Francis Fukuyama. 'Deeply researched and arrestingly original...' John Gray, }Independent{