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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Well, I'm personally drawn to culture/technology/personality-oriented histories (especially if they involve transitional change or outright clash or differing outcomes for seemingly similar persons/situations) rather than event/political/philosophy-focused stuff.
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You Sir, would appear to be far more focused than I. I just like to know stuff. Well, "history stuff" anyway and mainly of the older variety.
Thank you for the additional recommendations and for once again including excellent detail on each one. Very much appreciated indeed. I'll certainly look up each and every one and also bear Amazon.uk in mind, as I always do. As far as pricing goes I find that whether a book is less expensive in the US or the UK is fairly arbitrary, regardless of where it was published, although my experience is lacking where older, out of print books are concerned.
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Originally Posted by dworth
John Keay's China: A History is pretty good.
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This seems to be exactly what I want, at least to begin with, so thank you once again for mentioning it. As an added bonus Mr. Keay also has a similar book on India and various other volumes which may well be of interest. And while any single volume work on national history will by necessity suffer from a lack of depth, they do make for ideal starting points just as you point out.
On a closing note, before I hit the sack, I feel I should point out that enjoying Single Malt Whiskey before and whilst browsing Amazon is not necessarily a particularly good idea. It would seem that I am now the owner of a complete set of The Cambridge History of Japan....