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Peter Frankopan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Peter Frankopan is a historian. Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. The Environment & Climate Change. Needs coffee

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Book Cover for: Chinese religion through Hindu eyes; a study in the tendencies of Asiatic mentality, Benoy Kumar Sarkar

Chinese religion through Hindu eyes; a study in the tendencies of Asiatic mentality

Benoy Kumar Sarkar
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

@Mapwgf Hi Marion - I think you might mean Benoy Kumar Sarkar, The Chinese Religion through Hindu Eyes: A Study in the Tendencies of Asiatic Mentality (Shanghai, 1916). Hope that helps.

Paperback, 2020

$29.24$14.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding, Nile Green

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Nile Green
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

Very excited to welcome the brilliant Prof Nile Green to @KingsSilkRoads tomorrow to talk about his new book How Asia Found Herself: Intercultural Understanding in the Age of Empire. 2pm - all are welcome. https://t.co/2F5OYXEZCi

Hardcover, 2022

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: John Craxton: A Life of Gifts, Ian Collins

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

Ian Collins
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

And the winner ! Ian Collins - now talking about John Craxton: A Life of Gifts @RuncimanAward https://t.co/BljrfJDsC4

Paperback, 2023

$27.50$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, David Graeber

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

Pirate Enlightenment,' a slim, feisty book by the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber... sets out to explore the impact that apparently egalitarian pirate communities and their “rebel culture” may have had on local social, economic and political development.

Paperback, 2024

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire, Nandini Das

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Nandini Das
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

So pleased for and proud of my friend and colleague @rentravailer - what a glorious review of her fabulous new book #CourtingIndia by @SamDalrymple123 https://t.co/AZZ8oCTUJN

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, Caroline Dodds Pennock

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

3. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by @carolinepennock. A rare book that not only inverts standard narrative accounts of the crossing of the Atlantic, but one that will open doors for a new generation of scholarship https://t.co/wMqCIBDQgc

Paperback, 2024

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, James Tod

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han

James Tod
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

Very excited to see this in 2023 @AoAlio ! Lt.-Col. James Tod was a founding member and first Librarian of the @RAS_Soc. His Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han provide a fascinating window to the past. PLUS - new companion volume ed. by Norbert Peabody https://t.co/HCY5iChJDB

Hardcover, 2024

$1000.00$975.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, Tim Harper

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire

Tim Harper
Peter FrankopanPeter Frankopan

And will sit alongside ground-breaking work of Tim Harper and others on 'Underground Asia.' A great follow up too to yesteday's fantastic talk by Nile Green about new connections across Asia in the 19th & early 20th C. All welcome - starts at 2pm in person/online. Link above !

Paperback, 2023

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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