{"product_id":"underground-asia-global-revolutionaries-and-the-assault-on-empire","title":"Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire","description":"An Economist Best Book of the Year\nA Financial Times Best Book of the Year\n\nA major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent.\n\nThis is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century.\n\nIn 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi, and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence, and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities.\n\nUnderground Asia shows for the first time how Asia’s national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries’ struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia’s destiny to this day.\n\nPrevious praise for Tim Harper\n\nPraise for Forgotten Wars:\n“[A] compelling book.”―Philip Delves Broughton, Wall Street Journal\n“Lucid…majestic.”―Peter Preston, The Observer\n“Authoritative.”―Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker\n\nPraise for Forgotten Armies:\n“Panoramic… Vivid.”―Benjamin Schwarz, New York Times Book Review\n“A spectacular book.”―Martin Jacques, The Guardian\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0674724615\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0674724615.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Harper, Tim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41447202488378,"sku":"DBV.0674724615.VG","price":10.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0674724615-0.jpg?v=1780728250","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/underground-asia-global-revolutionaries-and-the-assault-on-empire","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}