How the East Was Won

Andrew Phillips is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. His books include War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and International Order in Diversity: War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean (co-authored with J. C. Sharman, Cambridge University Press, 2015).

• Introduction; 1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won; 2. The Eurasian transformation; 3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires; 4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia; 5. The great Asian divergence – Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century; 6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820; 7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.

'Andrew Phillips has done it again - this book will completely change how you think about empires, as well the competition between the East and the West.' Ayşe Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge