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  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    von Liza Weinstein …
    Serien series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 17,04

  • The God of Small Things

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    von Arundhati Roy …
    ‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,99

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    von William Dalrymple …
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    von Sathnam Sanghera …
    **EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWWINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION*****THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times_________________________________________________... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,49

  • Moth

    The powerful story of a family attempting to hold themselves together through the heartbreak of Partition

    von Melody Razak …
    Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel AwardHarper's Bazaar's 'Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer''Powerful and heartbreaking'Observer'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private language... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,49

  • Delta Force

    A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit

    von Donald Knox, Charlie A. Beckwith …
    "Absolutely compelling... Nations without men like Beckwith simply don't survive." — Wall Street JournalWanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both.The definitive insider's account of the U.S. Army's most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commanding officer of Delta ForceWhen Charlie Beckwith issued this call … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Amazing Thinkers and Humanitarians

    B2

    von Katerina Mestheneou, Fiona MacKenzie …
    Serien series Collins Amazing People ELT Readers
    The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Confucius, the great Chinese philosopherSocrates, the great Greek philosopherAristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledgeWilliam Wilberforce who ended the British slave tradeKarl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das KapitalMahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British ruleBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 16,058Headword … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 5,49

  • İngiliz Ermeni İttifakı

    von Halil Ersin Avci …
    Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun çöküşü İngiliz Ermeni İttifakı ile başladı. Peki İngilizler ve Ermeniler nasıl ittifak etti. 1688'de İngiliz ve İran-Hindistan Ermenileri arasında imzalanan ve asırlarca sadık kalınarak koruna bu antlaşma nasıl gerçekleşti.Üzerinde güneş batmayan İngiliz İmparatorluğu'nun kuruluşunda Ermeniler ne gibi bir role sahiplerdi?İngiliz istihbarat ağının şekillenmesinde 19. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Sophia

    Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

    von Anita Anand …
    'Sophia is the sort of remarkable, almost unbelievable untold true story that every writer dreams of chancing upon. A wonderful debut, written with real spirit and gusto. Anita Anand has produced a winner' William Dalrymple'A fascinating and elegantly written life of one of the unknown giants of women's suffrage' Katie Hickman, author of Daughters of BritanniaThe enthralling story of an … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • The Good Girls

    An Ordinary Killing

    von Sonia Faleiro …
    **Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger****Longlisted for t****he Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022**'Haunting … lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating' Financial Times'Transfixing' New York Times'A powerful, unflinching account of misogyny, fe... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,24

  • Thug

    The True Story Of India's Murderous Cult

    von Mike Dash …
    Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,76

  • India: A Wounded Civilization

    von Sir V.S. Naipaul …
    ‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ – The TimesIn 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization.In this work, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,20

  • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

    von Mary Lutyens …
    J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time. Discovered by the Theosophist as a boy in India, he was groomed by them as the new Messiah, a role he rejected when he set out independently on his own spiritual quest. Travelling the world, lecturing and teaching, he acquired an enormous following, including many eminent statesmen and intellectuals.As one of … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,99

  • Meet Me in Bombay

    All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.

    von Jenny Ashcroft …
    'An epic love story full of exotic charm and rich historical detail . . . Meet Me In Bombay will sweep you away to another time and place.' Red Magazine'Powerful and evocative' Woman & HomeAll he needs is to find her. First he must remember who she is**.**An injured soldier has lost everything, even his past. His dreams hint at his old life; flashes of a woman. His only wish is to return to her, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 3,49

  • The Corporation That Changed the World

    How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

    von Nick Robins …
    This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. … Lesen Sie mehr

    Kostenlos

  • Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

    Identity, Society and Conflict

    Bearbeitet von Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta …
    Serien series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this collection of essays critically explores the many paradoxes and complexities of modernity and politics in the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 70,96

  • Die Augen des ewigen Bruders. Eine Legende (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Inspiriert von den heiligen indischen Texten der Bhagavad-Gita erzählt Stefan Zweig von der Erleuchtung Viratas

    von Stefan Zweig, Benedikt Rausch …
    Stefan Zweigs Die Augen des ewigen Bruders. Eine Legende entfaltet in der Form einer kunstvoll stilisierten orientalischen Parabel die Geschichte des Kriegers Virata, der nach einem nächtlichen Sieg im Gesicht eines Getöteten den eigenen Bruder erkennt. Aus diesem Schockerlebnis erwächst eine radikale Prüfung von Schuld, Verantwortung und Gewalt. In knapper, rhythmischer Prosa verbindet Zweig … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 1,99

  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    von William Dalrymple …
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empirepodcast'Richly woven, highl... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • The Taliban Revival

    Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

    von Hassan Abbas …
    In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the country. But despite a more than decade-long attempt to eradicate them, the Taliban endured … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 20,45

  • Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan

    Bearbeitet von Shaun Gregory …
    Serien series Asian Security Studies
    This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box to another civilian government. At this important moment in Pakistan’s history, this collection brings together … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 64,62

  • Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

    A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

    von Aparajita Mukhopadhyay …
    This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial … Lesen Sie mehr

    Kostenlos

  • Gandhi

    von Alex Ivanov …
    More than seventy years ago, one great nation, Great Britain, granted independence to another, India. The transfer of power, while civil, was not entirely peaceful. Hindus and Muslims turned against each other in spasms of sectarian violence. Refugees trekked across the subcontinent - Hindus toward India, and Muslims toward the new nation of Pakistan. Amid the tumult, one voice crying out for … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,43

  • The Pashtun Question

    The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan

    von Abubakar Siddique …
    Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,98

  • No Beast So Fierce

    The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist

    von Dane Huckelbridge …
    The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course.In Champawat, India, circa 1900, a Bengal tigress was wounded by a poacher in the forests of the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,89