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  • Eclipsing the West

    £12.99

    An incisive, data-driven look at the rise of China and India that considers how these new 'superstates' are reshaping the world order.

  • Lying Abroad

    £20.00

    Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis – a life endlessly theatrical.