Roads to Xanadu: East and West in the Making of the Modern World.
Frenchs Forest. NSW. Child & Associates. 1989. Stock ID #165387 Looks at the different roads taken by nations to achieve wealth and power. Why the technological innovations first developed in China had such different social and economic impacts when they were eventually taken up in Europe is discussed together with the different roads Japan and China took in their response to European imperialism. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165387.
Colour maps, profuse colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, 288pp, endnotes, index, hardback in dustjacket, inscription one preliminary leaf, extremities a little rubbed, faded spine, good copy. 22 x 30cm.
Price: $25.00 AU