The Divided Asia How Empire Redrew a Continent - Softcover

Usman, Burhan Bin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798237667486

Publisher: Burhan Bin Usman, 2026

Synopsis

The Divided Asia

How Empire Redrew a Continent

Asia was never simply a collection of borders on a map. Long before modern states existed, its peoples, kingdoms, cities, and trading networks were connected across vast distances. Then empire arrived-and the map began to change.

The Divided Asia: How Empire Redrew a Continent takes readers through the forces that transformed one of the world's oldest and most complex regions. From European trading companies and colonial conquest to the drawing of artificial borders, the partition of India, the collapse of the Ottoman order, and the unfinished question of Palestine, this book explores how political power reshaped Asian societies.

But the story does not end with independence.

The book follows Asia into the Cold War, through coups, proxy wars, weapons markets, oil politics, foreign interventions, sanctions, revolutions, and conflicts that continue to shape the region. It examines Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Kashmir, sectarian divisions, contested borders, and the struggle for regional influence-not as isolated events, but as parts of a much larger historical transformation.

The final chapters turn toward the present: the rise of China, India, and other Asian powers; the growing competition over technology, trade, energy, infrastructure, and strategic influence; and the question of what comes after the age of empire.

Who controls the map? Who controls the resources? Who controls the future?

These questions lie at the heart of The Divided Asia.

For readers interested in colonial history, geopolitics, Asian history, imperialism, international relations, and the forces that shaped the modern world, this book offers a sweeping journey across more than a century of conquest, resistance, independence, conflict, and transformation.

The empire may have disappeared from the map.

Its consequences did not.

Edition details

• Publisher: Burhan Bin Usman
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798237667486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 594