forthcoming in paperback

A Cundhill History Prize Finalist, 2021

A Financial Times History Book of 2021

A Spectator Book of 2021

“A major achievement.”

—Timothy Brook, Literary Review

“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary.”

—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

“An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book.”

—Gerard DeGroot, The Times

September 2022

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