This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many
ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled …

This monumental series, already acclaimed" a masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship"
in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on …

While European civilization stagnated in the" Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring
of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and …

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive
study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted …

This monumental series, acclaimed as a" masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the
New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the …

And those words are as true to-day as when they were first penned. Men now living, and not
by any means superannuated, can remember events that have well-nigh remade the world …

Written with rare mastery and a sure sense of the essential, this concise general history of
modern East Asia offers students and general readers an understanding of this dynamic …

THIS book is the record of a journey in Central Asia, and its aim is to illustrate the
geographic relation between physical environment and man, and between changes of …

From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the
relationship between East and West. In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the …

From one of the world's leading historians? a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years
that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny Tracing its origins in …