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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

  • 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 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

  • Pakistan: A Hard Country

    von Anatol Lieven …
    DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,49

  • The Patient Assassin

    A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

    von Anita Anand …
    **WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE'Reads like something from a thriller**…colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times‘Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsHundreds of peaceful civilians were slaughtered in the Amritsar Massacre of 13 April 1919, after British troops opened fire without warning. According to legend, Udham Singh was among … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,95

  • The Shias of Pakistan

    An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority

    von Andreas Rieck …
    The Shias of Pakistan are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate propaganda and terrorism, yet paradoxically Shias have always been fully integrated into all sections of political, professional and social life without suffering any … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 42,56

  • Pakistan

    A Personal History

    von Imran Khan …
    "A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister.Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,99

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    von Suketu Mehta …
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,57

  • Friedrich der Große (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte des Preußenkönigs Friedrich II.

    von Franz Kugler, Leonie Harms …
    Franz Kuglers "Friedrich der Große" entfaltet das Leben des preußischen Königs als historische Charakterstudie und als Panorama des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Text verbindet erzählende Geschichtsschreibung mit prägnanter politischer Analyse: Aufstieg, Kriege, Reformen, Hofkultur und geistige Selbstinszenierung Friedrichs werden in einem Stil dargestellt, der Anschaulichkeit mit gelehrter Ordnung … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 0,49

  • Dust on the Throne

    The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

    von Douglas Ober …
    Serien series South Asia in Motion
    Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 27,27

  • East of the Sun

    A Richard and Judy bestseller

    von Julia Gregson …
    The captivating million copy bestseller of three young women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India.India 1928. A land of heat, dust and dreams, and the promise of love ...Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 3,99

  • The Many Lives of Syeda X

    A People’s History of Invisible India

    von Neha Dixit …
    'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial TimesWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,24

  • 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

  • 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