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    Features: New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 523 Release Date: 01-01-2004 Part Number: 4 maps Details: From Plassey To Partition: A History of Modern India begins with the disintegration and downfall of...

A New History of Modern India: An Outline is an introductory text that provides a well-rounded historical account of the history of modern India. The book will be of use to school and university students, teachers, competitive examinees and general readers who require a clear and concise delineation of Modern...

   

  Details: In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm...

  Details: Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic writing long suppressed, marginalized, and...

    Details: India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, India That Is Bharat. It explores the combined influence of European and Middle Eastern colonialities on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation, and on the...

Author: Deepak, J SaiBrand: BloomsburyColor: BlueEdition: Standard EditionFeatures: In order to liberate Bharat's distinctive indigeneity, 'decoloniality' is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a...

  Details: The Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East has unsettled the world for over half a century. What are the roots of this violence? Is it simply the 'normal' prejudice found through time between neighbouring peoples of different cultural traditions or ethnic origins? Or is hostility toward Israel a...

  Details: Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated his audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the...

   

    Details: From the WORLD OF ART series, a survey of the artistic achievements of the Renaissance sculptors from Nicola Pisano through Brunelleschi and Donatello to Michelangelo and Cellini.  

  Details: This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials...

    Details: Product Description In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom...

  Details: Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social...

  Brand: Hodder Education Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 03-11-1994 EAN: 9780340559291 Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches Languages: English

  Details: The Modern History of Japan covers Japanese history from approximately 1800--the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family--to the start of the twenty-first century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power. It then analyzes Japan's...

  Brand: Granta Books Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 840 Release Date: 01-08-2005 EAN: 9781862078048 Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.5 x 2.6 inches Languages: English

  Brand: The New Press Color: Pink Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 481 Release Date: 01-05-2001 Details: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies. EAN: 9781565843769 Package Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Languages: English

  Details: One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters who created some of Egypt's finest treasures. Illustrated with both color photos and black-and-white drawings, this groundbreaking study goes back...

      Details: Product Description Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first...

    Details: This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands...

    Details: The practice of piracy dates back thousands of years. This riveting chronicle provides a glimpse into the vivid history of "sea thieves," from ancient Greek, Roman, and Norse brigands to the pirates of the Golden Age?the infamous seventeenth century buccaneers of the Caribbean’s Spanish Main.Delve into the...

    Details: Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law,...

     

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    Details: The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity. In his monumental new book, David...

   

   

    Details: This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on the last six years of the Middle East peace process, in which Edward Said has been virtually a lone voice in the West supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Said questions the efficacy of Arafat's leadership, which...

    Details: Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly global economy. The...

  Details: In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large...

   Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century,New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars―historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists―who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and...

    Details: This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated...

Author: Smith, Jim Edition: 1 Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 368 Release Date: 13-08-2002 Details: A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.How close did the Japanese come to not...