John Keay, Author . Norton $28.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-393-05849-9
This thorough and dense history of the Middle East from the crumbling of the Ottoman Empire through the Suez Crisis (roughly 1900–1960) is written with an eye toward the topical and with confidence that "narrative crammed with dramatic...
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John Keay, Author University of California Press $40 (288p) ISBN 978-0-520-24896-0
In his latest, author Keay (Last Post) explores the prominent role spices have played in the construction of the modern world, from the development of the word itself to extensive schemes for trading it across continents to the personalities who...
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John Keay, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-019518-2
In this nicely detailed chronicle, British historian Keay (India: A History) portrays the arduous half-century Great Arc project as a pathbreaking scientific undertaking and as an adventure that transcended politics. He introduces George Everest, a...
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John Keay, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-561169-6
For 213 years, beginning around 1700, the ``incorrigible pioneering'' of merchant traders of the East India Company furthered the ``peculiarly diffuse character'' of the British Empire. British author Keay tells an ambitious story with sweep and...
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John Keay, Author Scribner Book Company $29.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-81592-3
With an astute eye for psychology, a well-honed British wit, and an appreciable gift for language and storytelling, Keay has contributed an informative and engrossing account of what remains for Westerners today's most important and misunderstood...
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John Keay, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $37.5 (592p) ISBN 978-0-87113-800-2
Sweeping from the ancient brick cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, built in the Indus Valley around 2000 B.C., to modern India's urban middle class armed with computers and cell phones, this erudite, panoramic history captures the flow of Indian...
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