Bøker av S. A. M. Adshead

First Published in 1984 Province and Politics in Late Imperial China presents analysis of one of the regional governments of China, the administration of the Szechwan governor-general from its apogee at the end of the nineteenth century to its nadir in the revolution of 1911.

This is a study of Central Asian history from Chinggis to the present, with reference to relations with China, Russia, India and Western Europe and to wider themes of world history. The following chapters relate Central Asian history to the eight world institutions, whose development, it is argued, constitute world history in the proper sense.