Shattered Lands: Five Partitions And The Making Of Modern Asia Sam Dalrymple William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ A Sparkling Debut By An Outstanding Young Historian\ Peter Frankopan ‘This Book Is Revelation … Both Original And Important\ Mishal Husain History Of Modern South Asia Told Through Five Partitions That Reshaped It As Recently 1928 Vast Swathe – India Pakistan Bangladesh Burma Nepal Bhutan Yemen Oman The Uae Qatar Bahrain Kuwait Were Bound Together Under Single Imperial Banner Entity Known Officially ‘Indian Empire’ Or More Simply Raj Was British Empire’s Crown Jewel Dominion Stretching From Red Sea To Jungles Southeast Home Quarter World’s Population Encompassing Largest Hindu Muslim Sikh Zoroastrian Communities On Planet Its People Used Indian Rupee Issued Passports Stamped Guarded Armies Garrisoned In Forts Bab El-Mandeb Himalayas Then Space Just Fifty Years Empire Shattered Tore Apart Carving Out New Nations Redrawing Maps Leaving Behind Legacy War Exile Division Lands For First Time Presents Whole Story How Unmade Sprawling Became Twelve Redrawn Boardrooms Battlefields Politicians London Revolutionaries Delhi Kings Remote Palaces Soldiers Trenches Legacies Include Civil Ongoing Insurgencies Kashmir Baluchistan Northeast Rohingya Genocide Ambition Betrayal Forgotten Wars Unlikely Alliances Borders Carved With Ink Fire Above All Map Made Sam Dalrymple’s Stunning Based Deep Archival Research Previously Untranslated Private Memoirs Interviews English Hindi Urdu Bengali Punjabi Konyak Arabic Burmese Portraits Key Political Players Accounts Those Swept Up These Mass Migrations Vivid Compelling Thought-Provoking At Best ‘A Achievement Reframes Rare Empathy Elegance Breathing Life Into Shape Our World Today’ Thant Myint-U Richly Researched Vividly Written Tells Colossal Powerful Broken Many Distinct Nation-States…An Impressive Gifted Very Energetic Writer’ Ramachandra Guha Σελίδες: 528 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm