John Keay Bücher

Wissen ist Macht, in der Politik wie in der Wissenschaft. Wer ein unbekanntes Land exakt vermessen und kartografiert hat, übt Macht aus - wie das British Empire zur Zeit der Kolonisierung Indiens im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Schilderung dieser Expedition ist zugleich die Geschichte der beiden Wissenschaftler, die sie leiteten. Ihre Charaktere und Führungsstile hätten unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Nach einem von ihnen, George Everest, wurde der höchste Berg der Welt »Mount Everest« getauft. Seine Höhenbestimmung wäre ohne die Vermessung nicht möglich gewesen. Indien-Experte John Keay zeigt Glanz und Schattenseiten der Expedition und macht die Menschen lebendig, die dieses monumentale Projekt menschlichen Ehrgeizes vorantrieben.

Encyclopaedia covering every aspect of Scotland's past: her people, arts, industries, environment and continuing traditions

Sowing the Wind examines the critical political underpinnings of conflict in the Middle East. Keay (known for his best-selling history of India) focuses on the hard-core countries of the Middle East known as the fertile Egypt, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Keay's account is absolutely riveting as he follows the West's manipulation, management, and mismanagement of the Middle East from 1900 up through the ascent of Arafat to power in the early 1960s. He ends with a forty-page tour-de-force update of the last forty years of American negotiation of economic and political fault lines in the Middle East.Keay's sweeping history pre-Balfour to post-Suez unearths a host of surprising firsts, from the Gulf's first "gusher" to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers.

Where men and mountains meet -- The Gilgit game.

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.

The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent's history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.

Alexander Gardner spent his life adventuring in Inner Asia. His story changed people's understanding of the world. The urge to contest or prove it contributed to the scientific and political penetration of much of Asia. Readers will see the region in a new light and gain a fresh perspective on its last years under native rule.