Books published by publisher J. Murray

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2008A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2008A Washington Post Best Book of 2008An Economist Best Book of 2008A New York Best Book of 2008A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2008A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAt the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China’s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races, and generations.The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the exotic backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive—a masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists.

Consisting of a pupils' book and a teachers' resource book this text takes a new approach to teaching source-related skills in secondary school history and applies to GCSE and S Grade History candidates. It provides a wide range of historical material to assist pupils in learning the essential criteria to assess sources for themselves. Five self-contained units discuss the importance of sources in providing evidence for historians, and the problems which they may pose. Early units introduce the basic skills, including terminology and definitions, required for source handling; later units include innovative exercises which develop increasingly sophisticated ways of analyzing and evaluating evidence. The book can be used as comprehensive preparation for Schools History Project Paper 2. Any individual unit can be slotted into existing courses to focus upon a particular skill - eg testing the reliability of a source - for coursework or exam preparation. Each unit includes assessment exercises based on core content for both Modern World History and British Social and Economic History. The Teacher's Book includes mark schemes and copyright-waived worksheets.