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  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

    Free

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

    15,68 €

  • Nemesis

    The historical epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith

    by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper ...
    A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • White Mughals

    Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime ... Read more

    13,77 €

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    by 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_________________________________________________... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • A Sinful Deception: Breconridge Brothers Book 2

    by Isabella Bradford ...
    Series Book 2 - Breconridge Brothers
    For fans of Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Sarah MacLean, comes Isabella Bradford's enthralling new trilogy of London's most scandalous rakes, the Breconridge Brothers, who are about to lose their hearts...Lord Geoffrey Fitzroy leads a charmed existence. The second son of the Duke of Breconridge and an infamous, incorrigible and inconceivably handsome rake, he ruthlessly leaves hearts fluttering ... Read more

    Was 11,99 € Now 2,99 €

  • Daughter of Empire

    Life as a Mountbatten

    by Lady Pamela Hicks ...
    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The God of Small Things

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    by 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 ... Read more

    9,42 €

  • Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India

    Moonset on Sunrise Mountain

    by Whitney Cox ...
    In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a ... Read more

    34,55 €

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by 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 ... Read more

    10,48 €

  • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

    by 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 ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • East of the Sun

    A Richard and Judy bestseller

    by 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 ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Patient Assassin

    A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

    by 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 ... Read more

    8,96 €

  • The Shadow of the Great Game

    The Untold Story of India's Partition

    by Raja Narendra Singh Sarila ...
    The untold story of India's Partition.The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Meet Me in Bombay

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

    by 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, ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Still Counting the Dead

    Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War

    by Frances Harrison ...
    The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

    Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India

    by Andrew C. Willford ...
    Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India’s leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-physician interactions alongside interviews with psychiatrists and neurologists. It explores how patterns of psychosocial causation, shaped by modernity's pressures, frame key questions in ... Read more

    28,72 €

  • India Through the Ages

    A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan

    by Flora Annie Steel ...
    “India Through the Ages” is a 1911 work by Flora Annie Steel that explores India's fascinating history from the ancient age to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Flora Annie Steel (1847 – 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years. She is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. Other notable works by this author include: “Tales of ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through India and Burmah with pen and brush

    by A. Hugh Fisher ...
    Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery.Terrors were upon them, and in abject wretchedness and hopeless struggle men, women and children spread every strip of their belongings over their bodies and even used for shelter the very mats upon which they had been ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

    by Smitha Radhakrishnan ...
    Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India’s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country’s economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • The Peoples of India

    by J. D. Anderson ...
    Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. The Peoples of India by J. D. Anderson was first published in 1913. ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Arming the Periphery

    The Arms Trade in the Indian Ocean during the Age of Global Empire

    by E. Chew ...
    Series series History (R0)
    A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914). ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • The breakup of India and Palestine

    The causes and legacies of partition

    Edited by Victor Kattan, Amit Ranjan ...
    Series Book 213 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party ... Read more

    24,26 €