How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia

by Andrew Phillips

Book Overview

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107546710
• ISBN13: 9781107546714
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"