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  • Arguing about the World

    The Work and Legacy of Meghnad Desai

    Edited by Prof. Mary Kaldor, Dr. Polly Vizard ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.'The breadth of Meghnad Desai's research interests is awe-inspiring. Hence it is no surprise to see so many who are at the forefront of their respective areas represented in this volume . . . a real treat.'Sunil Wadhwani, CBE, former member of the Monetary Policy ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

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    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Lives

    Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

    by Clare Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Law, Disorder and the Colonial State

    Corruption in Burma c.1900

    by J. Saha ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

    by A. Rudd ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. ... Read more

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  • Burden of History

    Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues

    by Udayon Misra ...
    The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000

    by Arupjyoti Saikia ...
    This book presents a comprehensive account of the transformation of Assam's forests and ecology from early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It locates present-day ecological conflicts in the colonial era when contest over forest, land, and resource began to take new shape. Arupjyoti Saikia delineates how forest resources in Assam were mapped and intergrated with mechant ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Bangladesh

    A Political History since Independence

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical location, and volatile political situations with several military coups, following its independence from ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

    Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914

    by A. Stanziani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century. ... Read more

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  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India

    Trials of an Interracial Family

    by Chandra Mallampalli ...
    Series Book 19 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Political Economy of Imperial Relations

    Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960

    by Alex Sutton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960. ... Read more

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