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  • El Batavia

    Traición, naufragio, asesinatos, esclavitud sexual, valor...

    Traducido por Francisco Campillo García ...
    Series Libro 39 - Papeles del tiempo
    La aventura del Batavia combina en una sola historia el nacimiento de la primera multinacional, la brutalidad de la colonización, el combate entre el bien y el mal, un motín, un primer encuentro entre civilizaciones, amor, barro, sangre, una dictadura de corte fascista, asesinatos, esclavitud sexual, nobleza, supervivencia, rescates, actos heroicos y mucho más. Descrito por el autor como la ... Leer más

    $10.47 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Hindi

    Literary Authority in Colonial North India

    In the early twentieth century, British imperialism in India was at its peak and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. The nationalist desire for cultural self-identification was gaining ground and an important articulation of this was the demand for a national language and literature to represent a modern India. It was in this context that Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, a novel, daring, and ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • A Genealogy of Terrorism

    Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea

    Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of 'the terrorist' in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Accidental Viceroy

    Robert Lytton in India

    The Age of Imperialism reached its peak in the late nineteenth century. The British Empire was the foremost colonial power, and the keystone was India. However, even at its peak, the British Raj was beset by internal rivalries and fears of external threats. In 1875, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli chose as viceroy Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, diplomat and poet, the son of an old friend, but ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Muslim Rule in Medieval India

    Power and Religion in the Delhi Sultanate

    The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for over three centuries. The era, marked by the desecration of temples and construction of mosques from temple-rubble, is for many South Asians a lightning rod for debates on communalism, religious identity and inter-faith conflict. Using Persian and Arabic manuscripts, epigraphs and inscriptions, Fouzia Farooq Ahmad demystifies key aspects of governance ... Leer más

    $36.49 USD

  • The Iconography of Independence

    'Freedoms at Midnight'

    This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and iconography of these seminal celebrations. The focus is therefore very much on political culture in a ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Shi'a Islam in Colonial India

    Religion, Community and Sectarianism

    de Justin Jones ...
    Series Libro 18 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range ... Leer más

    $38.59 USD

  • Empire's Garden

    Assam and the Making of India

    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Alimentary Tracts

    Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial

    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences of desire, taste, and appetite as well as new technologies of the embodied self. For ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Global India circa 100 CE

    By focusing on traders, missionaries, warriors, and adventurers—the four types of agents who are responsible for globalizing processes— this highly accessible volume brings analytical coherence and clarity to an unwieldy subject matter. In addition to excellent coverage of more familiar topics such as India’s sea trade with Rome, the proselytizing efforts of Ashoka and other Indian kings, or the ... Leer más

    $13.09 USD

  • Indigeneity, Landscape and History

    Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

    This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • A Lamp for the Dark World

    Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal

    Akbar the Great is a very familiar figure to most Indians. Hailed as a brilliant warrior, a great administrator, and a visionary ruler whose ideas of pluralism and tolerance sought to unify India with all its diversity of peoples and religions, he is also an increasingly contested figure in the national discourse. And familiar though he might be, Akbar is a mystery too, locked in his own legend: a ... Leer más

    $30.79 USD

  • Let's Explore India (Most Famous Attractions in India)

    India Travel Guide

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    With picture books, a child can see, feel, hear and even smell India. Picture books are multi-sensory experiences that challenge your child's senses. They tackle the part of the brain that is responsible for logic. Make learning fun and easy to remember with the use of this picture book. Grab a copy today! ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • India: A Million Mutinies Now

    Series series Picador Collection
    The third book in V.S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India.Much changed in India between V.S. Naipaul’s first trip to the land of his forebears and this final, fascinating account of his time in the country.Taking an anti-clockwise journey ... Leer más

    $17.69 USD

  • Crucible of Conflict

    Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka

    Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka’s east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • The Most Dangerous Place

    Pakistan's Lawless Frontier

    de Imtiaz Gul ...
    The story of the dark side of the Afghan war - and how Pakistan degenerated into a nuclear-armed powder kegEight years ago we chased the Taliban from Kabul and forced Al Qaeda to find a new home. One by one the militants crossed the border into Pakistan and settled in its tribal areas, building alliances with locals and terrorizing or bribing their way to power. This place - Pakistan's lawless ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

  • Beyond Belief

    India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Allied Marines In The Korean War: Train Wreckers And Ghost Killers [Illustrated Edition]

    [Illustrated with more than 40 maps, photos and diagrams]Command Historian Dr Leo J. Daugherty III reveals the missions, actions and successes of the British and Korean Marines that fought alongside the US Marines in the UN Allied forces during the Korean War."Among the United Nations forces committed to the far-flung battlefield that was Korea, it was the Marine component that stood out in its ... Leer más

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  • Spaces of Anticolonialism

    Delhi's Urban Governmentalities

    de Stephen Legg ...
    Series Libro 65 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. It pioneers a spatial governmentality analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and hidden spaces of anticolonial parrhesia, or courageous speech and actions, in the two decades before independence in 1947. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • The Age of Aspiration

    Power, Wealth, and Conflict in a Globalizing India

    de Dilip Hiro ...
    Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro's Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi's government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply "the best book on India." Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic liberalization that began in 1991, which ushered India into the era of globalization.Hiro describes how India has been reengineered not only in its ... Leer más

    $12.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Moghul Empire

    The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals

    Art, Representation and History

    One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable individuals, unprecedented in both South Asia and the Islamic world. Appearing at a time of increasing contact between Europe and Asia, portraits from the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Jahangirand Shah Jahan are among the best ... Leer más

    $109.39 USD

  • Perspectives On Kashmir

    The Roots Of Conflict In South Asia

    This work examines the long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, exploring the issues from the perpsectives of all the actors involved. The contributors reevaluate the Kashmir problem in the context of the revival of the dispute in 1990 and as an outgrowth of the politics of integration and separatism in South Asia since the p ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Cripps Mission

    The author of this book had been for several months in India studying the Indian constitutional problem when the Cripps Mission arrived. At Sir Stafford Cripps' request, Professor Coupland joined his staff, and this book is the result of close personal observation of the Mission at work, reinforced by a thorough knowledge at first hand of the background issues out of which the Cripps Mission was ... Leer más

    $4.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus